noun:

• the Grand Shrine at Ise

noun:

• the Inquisition ➜ 宗教裁判

noun / ~する noun:

• spanking the bottom; spanking - colloquialism

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented - abbreviation ➜ 草食系男子
• men who pretend they aren't interested in women; spineless males; men with no balls - abbreviation - slang

expression / noun:

• tip of the iceberg - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing to the floor

noun:

• the way a bra fits - From English "bust fit"

noun:

• memorial ceremony held on the 100th day of a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• inside the back cover (book); rear end-paper ➜ 見返し【みかえし】

noun:

• object or shape that symbolizes the vow of a buddha or bodhisattva to save all life - Buddhism term

expression:

• out of the question; preposterous

noun:

• the year before the unlucky year

noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

noun:

• the matter in question; the said problem

noun / ~する noun:

• lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term ➜ 総称

noun:

• second accession of the same emperor

noun:

• Order of the Chrysanthemum

noun:

• grove of the village shrine

noun:

• prostitute of the second rank (below the taiyu) (Edo period) ➜ 太夫

noun:

• deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)

noun:

• type of marriage where the man merely visits his wife without living with her; duolocal marriage

noun:

• coldest time of the year; bitter suffering

noun:

• On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species

adverb:

• to the best of my ability, poor though it be

noun:

• first purchase of the year