noun:

• under-shoulder swing-down; technique of grasping the arm of the opponent, the moment he comes forward, while stepping out of line and pushing down on the shoulder blade with the other hand, thus pulling him down - Sumo term
• dodging; parrying (questions) ➜ 肩透かしを食わせる【かたすかしをくわせる】
• disappointment; letdown

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail)

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail) ➜ ヒレナガハギ属【ヒレナガハギぞく】

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)

noun:

• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg ➜ 川崎七分

noun:

• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg

noun:

• radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast Aug. 15, 1945) ➜ ポツダム宣言

noun:

• product

noun:

• product

noun:

• product - Mathematics term

noun:

• product - Mathematics term

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)

noun:

• Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (7th of January); one of the 5 seasonal festivals ➜ 五節句

noun:

• excreta; raw sewage; human waste; night soil

noun:

• loam; humus
• soil formed from fine volcanic ash

noun:

• toilet (from which night-soil may be collected) ➜ 汲み取り便所

noun:

• Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun:

• legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State - honorific language

noun:

• The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching ➜ 五経

noun:

• night where one waits for someone who is supposed to come - archaism
• night of the 14th day of the eight month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War
• portrait or photo of a person of high rank - honorific language

expression:

• one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• finished product