noun:

• the Big Dipper seen on a winter night ➜ 北斗

expression / ichidan verb:

• to master the secrets of - obsolete term

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• the steel industry

noun / ~する noun:

• evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime

expression:

• under the orders of; by order (command)

noun:

• base of the throat; bottom of the neck

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the Nika riots which took place in 532 in Constantinople

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise the bar

noun:

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

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• worst of the worst; despicable; extremely bad

noun:

• the epistles of Paul; Pauline epistles

noun:

• the sun

noun:

• year of the horse

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to mark the passage of time; to let (feel) time pass

expression:

• the way one talks; one's way of speaking

noun:

• State of the Union Address (USA)

noun:

• the poor; the needy; the destitute

noun:

• early phase of the shoin-zukuri residential architecture style ➜ 書院造

noun:

• ancestors of the Imperial Family

noun / ~する noun:

• stroll on the Ginza (i.e. the street)

noun:

• the eighties (age, years, etc.)

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

noun:

• Epistle to the Galatians (book of the Bible) - obscure term ➜ ガラテヤ人への手紙