noun:

• resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - four character idiom

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

expression:

• the guilty are audacious; show remorse when you are in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• influential members of parliament acting for the benefit of the private industries to which they are connected

noun:

• the three types of gagaku drums - obscure term
• third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am) - archaism

noun:

• Miyako toad (Bufo gargarizans miyakonis, a subspecies of the Asiatic toad endemic to the Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

noun:

• soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel
• gates of Hades; entrance to the underworld ➜ 黄泉

noun:

• (in China) 10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B) ➜ 十二律・盤渉
• eighth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

expression:

• zeal is a bad servant; the person who chases a deer does not see the mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• Galeorhinus (genus whose only member is the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, in the family Triakidae)

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

noun:

• arrow with feathers that curve to the right (the second of two arrows to be fired) ➜ 甲矢

noun:

• closest pine-tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• middle pine tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• rice gruel with mochi - Food term
• azuki bean gruel eaten around the 15th day of the first month - Food term

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

noun / ~する noun:

• sympathy vomiting; vomiting due to the sight or the smell of another person's vomit