noun:

• Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible)

noun:

• equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

expression:

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

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• Carcharhinus (the type genus of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• pavilion housing the empress's reception hall (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)

noun:

• divination that predicts the events of the whole year (esp. concerning crops) ➜ 年見

noun:

• internal sense ➜ 外官【がいかん】
• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 外官【げかん】

noun:

• Struthioniformes; order comprising the ratites (sometimes spec. only the ostriches)

noun / ~する noun:

• being in the center of attention again; coming back into the limelight

noun:

• flag used at funerals showing the name and rank of the deceased

noun:

• backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

noun:

• high-quality buckwheat flour (made only using the center of the grain)

noun:

• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• plan for the invasion of the Soviet Far East in July 1941 - abbreviation

noun:

• lapis lazuli
• lapis lazuli (color) - abbreviation ➜ 瑠璃色
• beryl - abbreviation ➜ 吠瑠璃
• mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail) - abbreviation ➜ 小瑠璃・大瑠璃・瑠璃鶲
• glass - obscure term

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor

noun / ~する noun:

• being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time
• visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time