noun:

• light heat at the beginning of the summer

noun:

• sparkling waves; waves sparkling in the moonlight or with the light of the rising (setting) sun - four character idiom

noun:

• light that is said to be emitted from some hair or tuft in Buddha's forehead; ray of light from the tuft of white hair (between the eyebrows) - from 白毫相光 - abbreviation

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

noun:

• informal noh performed in light clothes (during the summer) ➜ 装束能

noun:

• elder chief of a village or town during Edo Period - archaism ➜ 年寄り

expression / noun:

• Day of the Rat (esp. the first Day of the Rat in the New Year)
• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots - abbreviation ➜ 子の日の遊び
• pine shoot pulled out in such a manner ➜ 子の日の松

noun / ~の noun:

• light purple (similar to that of the flowers of the Tartarian aster) ➜ 紫苑

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

auxiliary verb:

• used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader) - polite language ➜ ませ
• used to indicate respect for those affected by the action - archaism - humble language

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

noun:

• sappanwood (Caesalpinia sappan)
• sappanwood dye (red in colour) (color)
• layered colour (light brown on the front, dark red beneath)

noun:

• excursion spot; getaway - archaism
• red-light district; brothel - archaism

noun:

• Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)

noun:

• survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; the weak are meat the strong do eat [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• red; red color (colour) - usu. あかいろ

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• red-colored; red - usu. せきしょく

noun / ~の noun:

• communism; the left ［せきしょく］

noun:

• The Circle of Rainbow Light; Japanese religious group based on the teachings of Aum Shinrikyo ➜ オウム真理教

noun:

• warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
• man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer ［さぶらい］ - archaism

noun:

• faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world