noun:

• young men with deep tans (or dark makeup) who wear white eyeliner and lipstick - slang

noun:

• official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
• titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
• government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
• clerk working for large temples and shrines

noun:

• straw post for training sword strikes, karate punches and arrow hits

noun:

• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領

noun:

• display and printing calculator - IT term

noun:

• rescue and assistance (by public bodies) (e.g. in time of disaster)

noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• big and round (eyes, shaven head, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

noun:

• Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation - abbreviation ➜ 国土交通相

noun:

• Tokyo and Yokohama

noun:

• place of assemblage for the bold and ambitious

adjectival noun / noun:

• stubborn and mean; obstinate and bigoted

noun:

• wind and wave; rough seas

noun:

• era during 1960s dominated by grand champions Taiho and Kashiwado - Sumo term

noun:

• life and-or death

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to prick up one's ears and listen; to listen attentively - from the Disney movie Dumbo ➜ 耳がダンボ【みみがダンボ】

expression:

• between Japan and North Korea

expression:

• one's seniors and juniors
• seniority-based hierarchy

noun:

• the sun, the moon and the stars; the heavenly bodies - four character idiom

noun:

• pail-like wooden container typically lacquered in Japanese style, used for holding and serving hot liquids

noun:

• a foolish older brother and a smart younger - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

noun:

• conferment of Court ranks and decorations - four character idiom

expression:

• line and staff

noun:

• person of lofty virtue and great wisdom - four character idiom