noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 棟上げ式【むねあげしき】

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 餅まき

noun:

• Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren)
• Tendai sect of Buddhism

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners) ➜ 開国

noun:

• sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

noun:

• eyes; expression of the eyes
• area around the eyes; skin round one's eyes - orig.meaning

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation) ➜ 空気を読む

noun:

• the hill back of one's home; hill back from the seashore

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to praise (to the skies); to sing the praises (of); to extol

noun:

• regional promotion coupons; merchandise coupons for the promotion of the local economy ➜ 地域振興

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• third rank (in the Japanese court system)

noun:

• trinity (Christianity); the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

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:

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

noun:

• mirror with a mythical Chinese bird carved into the back ➜ 鸞鳥
• (in Japan) 9th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A sharp) ［らんけい］ ➜ 夷則・十二律

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

noun:

• Suiko period (i.e. the Asuka period, esp. under the reign of Empress Suiko, approx. 592-628 CE)

noun:

• imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years) ➜ 式年

noun:

• double doors opening from the centre

~の noun:

• double-opening from the centre (e.g. doors, casement windows, etc.)

noun:

• method of filleting fish, chicken, etc. with a central cut and peeling back the flesh

noun / suffix noun:

• lattice - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)
• handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)