noun:

• food offering to the gods

noun:

• mirror with a mythical Chinese bird carved into the back ➜ 鸞鳥
• (in Japan) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp) ［らんけい］ ➜ 夷則・十二律

noun:

• monument to the faithful who died in battle

noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

noun:

• discarding the just-drawn tile ➜ 自摸【ツモ】

noun:

• member of the Imperial family; royalty - four character idiom
• beautiful clouds

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

noun:

• all the banks (of a river)

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun:

• the five fingers
• leading five; top five

noun:

• castle on the plains ➜ 山城

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• in the meanwhile; during the time

noun:

• the right to work

noun:

• the said person; the target (person)

temporal noun:

• on the way back
• when about to go back

noun:

• miso from the Kamakura era - obscure term

noun:

• man in the moon - archaism

noun:

• age or life of the emperor

noun:

• facing the heat

expression / adverb:

• without considering the consequences; recklessly; imprudently; going overboard

~する verb (spec.):

• to rise up into the air; to ascend into the sky

noun:

• thrusting down one's opponent either inside or outside the ring - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• riding in the same carriage (car) (with a superior); attending on (one's superior) in the same carriage