noun:

• anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era - four character idiom

noun:

• idiomatic pronunciation or peculiar reading of a kanji or compound

noun:

• the spoken words of the emperor or a noble - honorific language

noun:

• swimming in the middle of winter or the cold season

noun:

• something worthy of comparison; something being compared ➜ 比べ物にならない【くらべものにならない】

noun:

• floating lanterns or offerings for the spirits of the deceased

noun:

• geographic features; divination based on the lay of the land

noun:

• white-toothed shrew (any rodent of genus Crocidura); shrew

noun:

• black tassel hung above the northwest corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• special consideration (esp. of a monarch, emperor, etc.); special favour

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious

noun:

• corpse of a person who has met a violent death

noun / ~する noun:

• getting up; getting out of bed; recovery from an illness

noun:

• development; expansion plan; interior elevation
• net (of a polyhedron); development - Mathematics term

noun:

• price of a flower
• fee for a geisha's companionship

noun:

• sake offered to someone; treat of sake

noun:

• new futures on the first trading session of the month

expression:

• being a member of staff but useless as a worker

noun:

• convenience for transportation; convenience of access (by road or rail)

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas - Buddhism term ➜ 三尊【さんぞん】

adverb:

• in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash

expression / noun:

• starry eyes and beautiful white teeth (said of beautiful women) - four character idiom

noun:

• Kofun period (of Japanese history, 250-538 CE); Tumulus period ➜ 古墳

noun:

• ability to discriminate or discern; (powers of) discrimination or discernment

noun:

• block votes (e.g. of a labor union, labour union)