noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be on the right track; to go well ➜ いい線を行く【いいせんをいく】

expression:

• on the strength of numbers

noun:

• document with the emperor's seal

noun:

• seventh of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on one's way

noun:

• devotee of the arts

godan ~す verb:

• to shave off the hair

noun:

• the same kind

noun:

• (in China) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp) ➜ 十二律・鸞鏡
• seventh lunar month

noun:

• oxygen-deficient air

noun:

• food set out on a stand; gift placed on a stand
• food brought on a large stand to a brothel by a red-light district caterer - archaism

godan ~む verb:

• to hold back on; to restrict sales of; to be reluctant to sell

noun / ~する noun:

• bursting through the surface; suddenly surfacing; rapid ascent
• sudden increase (e.g. in public interest)
• fast rise (e.g. in rank)

noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort - obscure term ➜ 三后

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• being as free as the air; active without any restraint - four character idiom

expression:

• a samurai never goes back on his word - proverb

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

noun:

• the edge (overlapping) part of a tatami mat

noun:

• benefiting from the influence of a master or parent

noun:

• at the height (peak) of one's popularity - four character idiom

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003) ➜ 有志連合

noun:

• morning of the New Year ➜ 元朝【がんちょう】

noun:

• the strength of ten

noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】