noun:

• harem; inside the palace; the palace

noun:

• the year before the unlucky year

noun:

• in the open; the open air

noun:

• the solar calendar; the Gregorian calendar

noun:

• the farthest ends; the furthest ends

noun:

• benefitting the enemy; benefiting the enemy

noun:

• the Emperor; His Majesty the Emperor ➜ 天皇【てんのう】

noun:

• the present regime; the existing regime

noun:

• the whole week; all the week

noun:

• the whole month; all the month

~の noun / temporal noun:

• last time; the last; the preceding

adverb:

• along the road; along the way

noun:

• the authorities concerned; the competent authorities - four character idiom

noun:

• the said person; the target (person)

noun:

• in the ministry; in the department

expression / adverb:

• to the bitter end; to the hilt

noun:

• the 108 kleshas; the 108 afflictions - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

pre-noun adjectival:

• of the time; at the time ➜ 時【とき】

noun:

• the same agency; the same office

noun / ~の noun:

• south; southern; southward

noun:

• countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to take along; to hold in the hand
• to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist) ➜ 下げる【さげる】

godan ~る verb:

• to reach the limits; to come to the end of one's tether

noun:

• now-now-ism; being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future

expression:

• the day is short, and the work is much; my goal is still a long way off - proverb

noun:

• Actinopterygii (class of the ray-finned fishes comprising nearly 95% of the 25,000 species of fish)