adjective:

• having the smell of having been dried in the sun
• provincial; rural; unrefined

noun:

• Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean, near the Mariana Islands)

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) ➜ 厚生労働省

noun:

• speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
• recruiting of university students before the agreed date

noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

noun:

• riverbed ［かしょう・かわどこ］
• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the cool in summer ［かわどこ・かわゆか・ゆか］

noun:

• the five virtues
• tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand
• family crest in the shape of such an object

noun:

• pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi - obscure term ➜ 忘れ緒

expression:

• the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more - proverb

noun:

• southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

conjunction:

• and; thereupon; because of that

noun:

• Chamber of Commerce and Industry

noun:

• matter of concern and interest

noun:

• department of science and engineering

noun:

• art of drawing and painting

noun:

• rank and order of merit

noun:

• rise and fall (of nations)

noun:

• peerage and order of merit

noun:

• Minister of Health and Welfare

noun:

• grounds (of tea and coffee)

noun:

• grounds (of tea and coffee)

noun:

• separation of church and state - four character idiom