noun:

• Myoken (bodhisattva; deification of the North Star or the Big Dipper) - Buddhism term

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead

noun:

• return to the palace (usu. of the empress, crown prince, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• night before the full moon; 14th day of the lunar calendar ➜ 望月

noun:

• faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark

noun:

• sound when stopping the blade of a sword with the guard

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根も乾かぬうち【したのねもかわかぬうち】

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根の乾かぬうち【したのねのかわかぬうち】

noun:

• hotel in the center of the city - From English "city hotel"

noun:

• shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki as of the highest rank ➜ 延喜式【えんぎしき】

noun:

• The Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1939-1940)

noun:

• The Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1941-1944)

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• predicting the weather from the wind direction, shape of clouds, etc.

noun / ~の noun:

• the earth; the globe

noun:

• the deceased; the departed

noun / ~の noun:

• the body; the flesh

noun:

• the throne; the crown

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• the lowest; the worst

noun:

• the people; the public

noun:

• the world; the universe - four character idiom