noun:

• soot of burnt pine; ink stick (made from burnt pine)

noun:

• the first part of a poem or verse

noun:

• school for Japanese outside of Japan

noun:

• alleviation of congestion (esp. traffic)

expression:

• as of the end of (today, this month, etc.); to make (today, etc.) the last (day) ➜ 声を限りに

expression / noun:

• tip of one's nose

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

noun:

• statement of payment (delivery)

expression:

• a long time ago; in those days

expression / temporal noun:

• a long time ago

noun:

• place where a stationary fishing net is spread out ➜ 定置網

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

noun:

• year of the boar

noun:

• one hundred top mountains of Japan

expression / noun:

• sound of the wind; voice of the wind

noun:

• hell's mountain of needles - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• being a match for a thousand; being a mighty warrior (combatant, player) - four character idiom

noun:

• 48th of the sexagenary cycle

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "iru"

noun:

• Minister of Agriculture and Commerce (Meiji-Taisho) - obsolete term ➜ 農商務省

noun:

• falling paulownia leaf signaling the beginning of autumn (fall)

noun:

• paying a tribute; contribution; presentation of something to an aristocrat

noun:

• hijacking of nuclear material ➜ ジャック

~と adverb / noun:

• (fighting) in a confused mass; (falling) in swirls; (falling) in whirls

noun:

• secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)