noun:

• the five cardinal Confucian virtues (justice, politeness, wisdom, fidelity and benevolence)

noun:

• the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, and down)

prefix:

• hexagonal

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• wrestler who keeps going up and down the rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• knee touch down - Sumo term
• posture with knees and toes on the floor

noun:

• rising diagonally up and to the right
• growing; expanding; soaring

noun:

• coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process

noun:

• blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus, found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• the three Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic)

noun:

• règle des trois unités; the three unities (time, place and action)

noun:

• the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting

noun:

• the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

noun:

• final paragraph; final paragraphs; the end of a story of block of text

noun:

• gently sloping mountain (of the less rugged mountain of a pair of mountains) ➜ 男山

noun:

• chairman of executive council (usu. of a party); chairman of the general affairs committee

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing by ear; ad hoc approach - four character idiom

noun:

• expel the barbarians; expulsion of the foreigners; late Edo period (19th century) revolutionary slogan

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk