noun:

• class of warship; warship category

noun:

• 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months ➜ 上元・中元・下元
• heaven, earth and man
• 1st January; New Year's Day

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• ternary - Chemistry term

noun:

• system of automatic advancement to high school and university without an entrance exam ➜ エスカレーター学校【エスカレーターがっこう】

noun:

• spirit of a dead person; ghost; departed soul

noun:

• ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry ［かばざくら］ ➜ 江戸彼岸
• any cherry tree with birch-like bark
• Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana) - archaism ➜ 上溝桜

expression:

• "There is a huge markup in medicines." - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• making a pressing appeal; appealing to pity

noun:

• court music pavilion in a Shinto shrine; kagura hall ➜ 神楽殿

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a parting shot at

noun:

• 54th of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• Bank of Japan Act - abbreviation - Law term ➜ 日本銀行法

noun:

• spring wind telling the tidings of flowers

noun:

• a reclusive life; living secluded from the world; leading a sequestered life - four character idiom

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• person of letters; poet - archaism ➜ 文人【ぶんじん】

noun:

• Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin ➜ 糺す

adjectival noun / noun:

• of great prominence or dignity

noun:

• being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one - four character idiom

noun:

• autographs (brushwork) of departed person

noun:

• doctor to a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

noun:

• (seat at) the head of the table; seat of honour (honor) - colloquialism

noun:

• a lacquer painting

noun:

• possession by a fox spirit; person possessed by a fox spirit

noun:

• National Institute of Health Sciences; NIHS