noun:

• gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan - archaism

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit) - abbreviation ➜ 身八つ口

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival of goods

noun:

• farmland given to nobles of the fifth rank or above (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律
• ninth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• powers of observation

noun:

• sound like a steam engine

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

noun:

• terms of service; terms of use; terms and conditions

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be of use (service)

noun:

• banks of the Sumida river

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner

expression / noun:

• principle of least action - Physics term

expression / noun:

• humiliation of defeat in battle; past humiliation by others; shame of an unendurable disgrace - proverb ➜ 会稽の恥を雪ぐ【かいけいのはじをすすぐ】

noun:

• narrowing of visual field; narrow-mindedness; lack of vision - four character idiom

noun:

• severing of connections or relations

noun:

• angle of friction; frictional angle - Physics term

noun:

• norito read at a great purification event - obscure term - Shintō term ➜ 大祓

noun:

• soba and rice cooked together along with meat, vegetables, etc. on a metal plate

adverb:

• instead of; for; as; in exchange for; in return (for); to make up for ➜ 代わり【かわり】・代わり【かわり】・代わり【かわり】

noun:

• Minister of the Imperial Household ➜ 宮内省

noun / ~する noun:

• repeating a course; taking a course again - abbreviation - slang ➜ 再履修

noun:

• five lowly castes of the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun / ~の noun:

• being raised in a town

noun:

• underside of a bird's wing
• lining of a haori ➜ 羽織