noun:

• system of government

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• higher forms of life

noun:

• Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (1960)

noun:

• black-skinned variety of watermelon

noun / ~と adverb:

• sound of the expulsion of soft matter mixed with water; diarrhea, etc. sounds; watery - onomatopoeia

adverb / noun:

• middle of the month

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• period of time in which to recharge one's batteries

noun / ~する noun:

• enrolment of a child in a kindergarten

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document

noun:

• lock of hair (on the side of the head)

noun:

• improvement of labor conditions (labour) - four character idiom

noun:

• first part of a poem; first part of a verse

expression / noun:

• lakes and torrents of spring (overflowing with water)

noun:

• drunken elephant piece, used in some variants of shogi

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a matter of life or death

noun:

• the smell of blood

noun:

• shape of the head - archaism
• using make-up - archaism

noun:

• herd of sheep; flock of sheep

noun:

• the refined speech of the uptown residents of Tokyo ➜ 下町言葉・山の手

~する verb (spec.):

• to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

godan ~る verb:

• to slip out of one's scabbard (of swords) - archaism

noun:

• type of astrology

noun:

• amount of drinking