noun:

• good thing; strong point
• good family; prestigious school
• the right moment

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• utter; extreme

adverbial noun:

• at (the) best; at most

noun:

• Suiko period (i.e. the Asuka period, esp. under the reign of Empress Suiko, approx. 592-628 CE)

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years) ➜ 式年

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• the other party (usu. in business); person or party with whom you are dealing (on the other end)

noun:

• sliteye shark (Loxodon macrorhinus, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific)

noun:

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

noun:

• dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) ➜ 偈

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
• intentional negligence
• tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)

noun:

• dumpling cooked in miso served during the dog days of summer at the imperial court
• accompaniments for a rice dish - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ おかず
• wooden pestle - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ すりこぎ
• menstrual period - archaism

noun:

• school of western-inspired Japanese drama which developed towards the end of the Meiji period; shingeki; new-drama (movement)

noun:

• Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE) ［ないだいじん］
• Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE)

noun:

• being two sides of the same coin; being the same (while appearing different)

expression:

• Very sincerely yours ➜ 不一

~の noun / noun:

• peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• Little New Year (festival held on January 15th); 14th-16th days of the first month of the year; Koshogatsu

noun:

• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

noun / ~の noun:

• (similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born

noun:

• White Tiger (god said to rule over the western heavens) ➜ 四神
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the western heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿

noun:

• Black Tortoise (god said to rule over the northern heavens) ➜ 四神
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the northern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿

noun:

• Bodhi-manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family) - archaism
• crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• Negaprion (genus of requiem sharks in the family Carcharhinidae containing the two extant species of lemon sharks)

noun:

• Achilles tang (Acanthurus achilles, species of surgeonfish found from the Western Pacific to the East Central Pacific)