noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• refusal to accept the present situation; denial of the existing situation; negation of the status quo - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句・重陽【ちょうよう】

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) ➜ 文展【ぶんてん】

noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

noun:

• business; task; errand; engagement
• use; purpose

suffix noun:

• for the use of ...; used for ...; made for ...

noun:

• call of nature; excretion ➜ 用を足す

noun:

• special ward (esp. of Tokyo)
• special economic zone (China) - abbreviation ➜ 特別経済区
• special administrative region of China (e.g. Hong Kong) ➜ 特別行政区

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be tired of; to be sick of; to get fed up with

noun:

• Home Ministry; Department of the Interior (US, etc.); Home Office (UK); Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan, pre-1947)

noun:

• total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• since the era of the Emperor Jinmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊

noun:

• Matsuo Basho remembrance day (12th day of the 10th lunar month, associated with the change of the seasons)

noun:

• STAP cell (proposed but disproved type of pluripotency cell); stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cell - Biology term

noun:

• six-year secondary school (type of school introduced in the 1998 revision of the Japanese School Education Law)

noun / suffix noun:

• spot; mark
• point; dot
• mark (e.g. in exam); score; points

noun:

• comma
• aspect; matter; respect

counter:

• counter for goods, items, articles of clothing, works of art, etc.

adverb / ~と adverb:

• burbling - onomatopoeia
• hollow (sounding) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• holey; full of holes or dents; lumpy; bumpy

adjectival noun:

• viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly ［ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ］ - colloquialism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) walking slowly ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• mon; one-thousandth of a kan (unit of currency 1336-1870)
• 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes)
• letter; character; sentence
• scripture; incantation - abbreviation ➜ 経文・呪文

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun / ~の noun:

• outside (e.g. of a building); exterior
• outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world

noun:

• tangent point; point of contact - Mathematics term
• contact (electrical, etc.)
• point of agreement; common ground; interaction