noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

noun:

• the five virtues
• tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand
• family crest in the shape of such an object

noun:

• pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi - obscure term ➜ 忘れ緒

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)

noun:

• Tilapia (large genus of cichlid fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Africa and the Middle East)

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• beginning of the year; early in the New Year

noun / ~の noun:

• the other world; world of the dead; netherworld

noun:

• by the end of this week; within the week

expression / noun:

• the Fall of Man (in Christian theology); the Fall

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow the sense; to understand the meaning of

noun:

• landing in the face of the enemy; opposed landing

noun:

• inside the Imperial Palace
• Department of the Imperial Household ➜ 宮内省

noun:

• division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
• the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

expression:

• look at both sides of the thing; look at both sides of the shield [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to be the subject of attention; to call people's attention; to be the rage; to be of interest

noun:

• Hon'inbō; Honinbo; grand master of the game of go ➜ 本因坊戦

noun:

• closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of Edo era

particle / conjunction:

• (at the end of a phrase) notes one (of several) reasons