noun:

• present holder of an office

noun:

• (at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year

expression / noun:

• one's only good set of clothes (suit, kimono, etc.) - obscure term ➜ 一帳羅【いっちょうら】

noun:

• flesh of a blueback fish ➜ 青魚【あおざかな】

expression:

• before the end of this year

noun:

• one red flower standing out in a sea of green vegetation; one item of quality standing out among many; one woman among many men - four character idiom

noun:

• unit of land area (orig. 595.044 m^2) - archaism

noun:

• Department of the Navy

noun:

• emperor of the time

noun:

• infirmities of old age

noun:

• twenty-seventh of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun / ~する noun:

• change of opinion

expression / noun:

• second law of thermodynamics - Physics term ➜ 熱力学第二法則【ねつりきがくだいにほうそく】

noun:

• area of influence; zone of influence; extent of impact

noun:

• blending of the classical and colloquial styles - four character idiom

noun:

• mist over a body of water; spray
• suien; four decorative metal plates joined at right angles forming part of a pagoda finial ［すいえん］

noun:

• rate of foreign exchange

ichidan verb:

• to give a signed statement or an IOU

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• large amount of capital; large-cap; big-cap

noun / ~する noun:

• distortion of facts

noun:

• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (formerly Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications)

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• will of iron - four character idiom

noun:

• scraps of food, batter, etc. remaining in deep-frying oil ➜ 天かす

noun:

• an absolutist