noun:

• language used in red-light districts during the Edo period ➜ 郭言葉

noun:

• the respective (relative) strength of political parties; distribution of the number of parliamentary seats held by each of the political parties - four character idiom

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

noun:

• the will to power (philosophical concept of Nietzsche)

noun:

• lacquer made from the sap of Acanthopanax sciadophylloides ➜ 漉油

noun:

• calendar distributed by the Ise shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• lowering the level - From English "level down"

noun:

• dilation of the pupil; mydriasis

noun:

• aural highlight of a noh play in which the main actor dances ➜ 曲【くせ】・仕手

noun:

• member of the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun:

• dissolution of the lower house of parliament ➜ 衆議院解散【しゅうぎいんかいさん】

noun:

• committee of the National Diet

noun:

• His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor - abbreviation ➜ 今上天皇【きんじょうてんのう】・今上陛下【きんじょうへいか】

noun:

• Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate

noun:

• person fallen sick by the wayside

noun / ~の noun:

• the Amazon river
• Amazon (woman of Greek mythology)

noun:

• work hakama for use in the snow ➜ 山袴

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

noun:

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - obscure term ➜ 国連海洋法条約

noun:

• bales forming the edge of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• rising of the tide; a beginning

noun:

• year of the dog

expression:

• even the patience of a saint eventually runs out; (if you touch) the Buddha's face three times (he will get annoyed) [literal] - proverb