noun:

• head of the house

noun:

• Tarui accent, used in the Kinki region and parts of Hokuriku

noun:

• Supreme Orders of the Chrysanthemum

noun:

• 55th of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• from the chemical point of view

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun:

• lotus-shaped pedestal for images of the Buddha

noun / ~する noun:

• the situation reverses itself; the table is turned; the shoe is on the other foot - four character idiom

noun:

• moon of the 19th day of the lunar month

noun:

• obstructing the discharge of official duties; hindering a government official in the execution of his duties

noun:

• the Imperial Household expenses

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

noun:

• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

noun:

• Act on Port Regulations (1948)

noun:

• grasping the trend; firmly understanding how the situation is developing; getting a good sense of how things are changing - four character idiom

noun:

• burning at the stake; burning to death

expression / adjective:

• not in the least

temporal noun:

• the sixth hour of the morning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• making a living in the red-light district - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• calculating on paper

noun:

• poke in the forehead

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang on the wall

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to enter the government service