noun / ~の noun:

• under the rule of

noun:

• director of the Office of Court Ladies (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• the six blood relations

noun:

• basking in the sun - abbreviation ➜ 日向ぼこり

noun:

• third watch of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am)

noun:

• fourteenth day of the month
• fourteen days

noun:

• legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State - honorific language

noun:

• obsolete rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same group of stables - Sumo term

noun:

• first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
• initial share price during a public offering

noun:

• on-the-fly recording - IT term

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to loom in the distance

expression:

• the mediocre have no right to criticize the great - sensitive - proverb

noun:

• the (civil engineering and) construction industry

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple - abbreviation ➜ 供奉僧
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cut one's way through the waves

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to float upright in the cup (of a tea stem, as a sign of good luck)

noun:

• Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto) - Buddhism term ➜ 和讃【わさん】・来迎【らいごう】

noun:

• the Measurement Law

noun:

• tiles matching the round wind - Mahjong term ➜ 場風・場【ば】

expression:

• (to be pushed) toward the middle (of a crowd) (usually against your will)

noun / ~する noun:

• entry into the sanctum of a shrine or temple; access to the imperial court

noun:

• the next meeting

noun:

• strict observance of the Buddhist commandment that all priests should be celibate

noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

expression:

• in the course of one's duties