noun:

• chief of the general affairs department (bureau); chief of the executive section

noun:

• name of the writer of a gravestone epitaph, engraved after the epitaph

noun / ~の noun:

• pedagogy; pedagogics; education (esp. in the context of the study of education)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to violate the laws of nature; to overstep the bounds of moderation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to employ the right person; to choose somebody with the right qualities

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); The time being ripe (for) - four character idiom

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - sometimes read たまをのぼし or たまほめぼし - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・魂讃め星・魂緒の星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・鬼宿・魂讃め星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun:

• Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 鬼・鬼宿・魂緒の星
• "day of the ghost" ➜ 鬼宿日

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• on-the-fly; on the fly

noun:

• genuine product; official product; accessory product from the manufacturer of the main product - IT term

~する verb (spec.):

• to rise up into the air; to ascend into the sky

noun:

• tidal hypothesis (of the origin of the solar system); near-collision hypothesis

noun:

• transcendent world; world outside of the material world; somewhere removed from the world

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun:

• avenue in the capital; busy main street of the capital; main thoroughfare

noun:

• the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology - four character idiom

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun / ~する noun:

• coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance)

noun:

• musicians' box on the left side of the stage
• lower seat ➜ 下座【しもざ】

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

noun:

• alveolar consonant; sound (e.g. n,t,d) where the tongue touches (or nearly touches) the ridge behind your front top teeth ➜ 歯茎

noun:

• egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

pre-noun adjectival:

• the usual; as it always is
• said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.)

adverb:

• in the usual way - archaism