noun:

• Giraffidae; family containing the giraffe and the okapi

noun:

• public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 内官

noun:

• football (soccer) - humorous term - slang
• kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles - vulgar - slang

expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】

noun:

• Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the shogun ➜ 謝恩使

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun

noun:

• the part of a province furthest from the capital - archaism ➜ 道の口・道の中

noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 魂祭り【たままつり】・盂蘭盆

noun:

• the Siberia Intervention (1918-1922); the Siberian Expedition

noun:

• crawling with the belly against the floor (baby)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into
• to reject; to deny; to refuse
• to eliminate; to exclude; to leave out
• to flip; to splash; to splatter
• to decapitate; to behead - esp. 刎ねる
• to jump up
• to point or curl up (e.g. ends of hair)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be equal to the task; to be up to the job; to be capable of filling the post

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

noun:

• head; chief; leader; elder
• the greatest of all; the most excellent

adverb:

• at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun / ~する noun:

• moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar) ➜ 月見

noun:

• shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• Buddhist memorial service; prayers for the repose of the soul

noun:

• open to all; taking part on the spur of the moment

noun:

• perestroika; reform movement within the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s - From Russian "perestroyka"

noun:

• province of the lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving for the provinces - archaism

noun:

• prostitution of learning; twisting the truth and truckling to the times - four character idiom

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - four character idiom