noun:

• Kanmon Straits (between Honshu and Kyushu)

noun:

• greige; colour between grey and beige

noun:

• kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
• special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
• kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism

noun:

• the orientation of time and place; awareness of the existing situation - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• clashing of swords - onomatopoeia

noun:

• fight; brawl; scuffle - onomatopoeia

noun:

• truths of the cessation of suffering and of the way to the cessation of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 道諦・滅諦

noun:

• custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

noun / ~する noun:

• fighting a good fight; putting up a good fight; fighting bravely

noun:

• semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

noun:

• governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

noun:

• separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period) - four character idiom ➜ 神仏習合

noun:

• Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over - Buddhism term ➜ 八大地獄【はちだいじごく】

noun:

• relocation of wild animals to a remote location - four character idiom

noun:

• location famous for production of something (usually food)

noun:

• location without an address; unnumbered plot of land

noun:

• reverence for the emperor and the overthrow of the shogunate

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun:

• black surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm, species of tang endemic to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

noun:

• (baseball) game between Waseda and Tokyo universities

noun:

• conjugal harmony; concord between husband and wife

noun:

• transitional tide between spring and neap tides

noun:

• ceremony where the Emperor would inspect the records of attendance and absence of officials - archaism