noun:

• Imperial Rescript on Education (1890) - abbreviation ➜ 教育に関する勅語【きょういくにかんするちょくご】

noun:

• three-pronged vajra flung by Kukai on his return from China to determine the Holy Land of Esoteric Buddism - Buddhism term

noun:

• one's opinion on life and death; life-and-death issue (e.g. in religion)

noun:

• fried vegetables and meat on skewer

noun:

• on-the-site inspection

noun:

• candy-coated fruit (usu. a plum) on a stick ➜ りんご飴【りんごあめ】

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• on demand

adjectival noun / noun:

• going through life with one's heart on one's sleeve; sensibility - four character idiom

noun:

• oblique line - abbreviation

noun:

• on the high seas

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fasten one's eye on (a person); to stare at

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)

noun:

• experiments on animals

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be on the same wavelength; to think alike; to get along

noun:

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT

noun:

• moon-viewing on the 13th day of the 9th lunar month - archaism ➜ 後の月【のちのつき】

expression:

• based on; derived from; building on; beginning with

noun:

• bikini line

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a kettle on (the stove)

noun:

• balancing on a ball

noun:

• cards with stanzas of waka written on them
• card-matching game played with these cards

noun:

• (former) regular (stops at every station) Tōhoku-line Shinkansen - obsolete term ➜ やまびこ

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines) ➜ お火焚

noun:

• five-line musical notation; Western musical notation based on the five-line staff