noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom - obscure term ➜ 猿袴

noun:

• assembly at the end of the day (at a company or school, etc.) ➜ 朝礼【ちょうれい】

noun:

• Lemuriformes; infraorder containing the lemurs (and sometimes the lorises and galagos)

noun:

• divine grace; divine protection; boon from the gods (or the emperor, etc.) - archaism - honorific language

adjective:

• having the smell of having been dried in the sun
• provincial; rural; unrefined

noun:

• Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean, near the Mariana Islands)

noun:

• reflation; stimulating the economy by increasing the money supply or by reducing taxes ➜ リフレーション

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• time passes; the days and months go by; the months roll on

noun:

• abacus; flat slab forming the top part of the capital of a column - Architecture term - From Greek

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

noun:

• the five virtues
• tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand
• family crest in the shape of such an object

noun:

• going down the road; travelling; traveling
• lyric composition describing scenery a traveler sees on the way (traveller)
• eloping

noun:

• wealthy women who strive to follow the fashions exactly and be seen in all the right place

noun:

• pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi - obscure term ➜ 忘れ緒

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)

noun:

• Tilapia (large genus of cichlid fish in the Cichlidae family endemic to Africa and the Middle East)

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ 御触書