noun:

• four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
• four gods said to rule over the four directions ➜ 四神

noun:

• days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle) ➜ 天一神・癸巳・戊申

noun:

• book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer) ➜ ブックカバー

noun:

• empowering women; promoting women's contribution; removing obstacles to women's full participation in society and the workplace

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

noun:

• military administration; military government ➜ 民政
• government affairs relating to the military

noun:

• prefatory sutra - Buddhism term
• opening a sutra; beginning to read a sutra

expression:

• fighting (tilting at) windmills; working oneself up even though there really isn't anything to fight at - four character idiom
• single-person mimicking a wrestling match

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

expression:

• one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term

noun:

• Canopic jar; Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

~する noun:

• to master (a skill)

noun:

• proprietor; manager; owner; barkeeper
• leader; chief; head
• master (of arts, science, etc.)
• master (recording)
• master (device) ➜ スレーブ

adjectival noun:

• nonsensical; unreasonable; absurd; unrealistic - four character idiom
• awfully; extremely; to excess; senseless; reckless

noun / adjectival noun:

• disorder; confusion; being jumbled; being mixed up

adverb:

• very; extremely; excessively - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

noun:

• official post; regular post; permanent office
• principal post (as opposed to secondary post)

pronoun:

• I (of someone in government or the civil service)

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• kingdom - Biology term
• erathem (rock layer corresponding to the era in which it was deposited) - Geology term
• partition of land

suffix:

• the world of (some category)

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha