expression:

• take care of yourself before you take care of others; wave off your own flies before you wave off somebody else's flies [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Council of Local Authorities for International Relations; CLAIR

noun:

• effects of karma

noun:

• coming-of-age ceremony

expression:

• you don't appreciate the value of good health until you lose it - proverb - obscure term

noun:

• state of progress

noun:

• fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name - four character idiom

noun:

• area where a string of nuclear power plants are located - four character idiom

noun:

• maintaining the quality of a flower; lasting quality of a cut flower

noun:

• source of revenue; financial supporter

noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

noun:

• parading of portable shrines and floats at Shinto festivals

noun:

• household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier ➜ 食封

noun:

• mislabelling of food (e.g. expiry date, country of origin, etc.); food fraud

noun:

• bulletin board displaying the name, age, offence, etc. of a criminal sentenced to death (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• middle of the road; on the road
• on the way (to one's destination)

expression:

• way of calling

noun:

• first young greens of the year - obscure term

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• denial of service attack - IT term

expression:

• on the strength of numbers

noun / ~する noun:

• change of course - four character idiom

noun:

• seventh of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• devotee of the arts

noun:

• city at risk of disappearing (because of decreasing population)