noun:

• Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

noun:

• Department of Divinities (1868-1871) ［じんぎかん］ - obsolete term
• Department of Worship (under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制

noun:

• manifestation of a Buddha (or bodhisattva, etc.) in the form of a Shinto kami

noun:

• dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena) - Buddhism term ➜ 法性
• Hosso sect of Buddhism - abbreviation ➜ 法相宗

noun:

• drug czar; Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; ONDCP

noun:

• Pugwash conferences (series of international conferences promoting the peaceful application of science)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn the rudder of a ship; to change direction (of policy, etc.)

noun:

• fragmentary remains of a large set of writings; the odd volume; a few pages ➜ 端本

noun:

• chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】

adverb:

• sound of a small wave hitting the shore; sound of a whip; sound of a slap - onomatopoeia

godan ~う verb:

• to co-operate (in enterprises); to hold in common; to share - archaism

noun:

• unwritten law; unwritten rule; common law

noun:

• monetary union; currency union; common currency

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites

noun:

• Premium Friday; government-backed campaign to allow workers to go home early the last Friday of the month - From English

noun:

• wife; Mrs; madam ［ふじん・はしかし］ - honorific language
• wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) ［ふじん］ - archaism
• consort of the emperor ［ふじん・ぶにん］ - archaism

noun:

• old shop; shop of long standing

~の noun:

• well-established; first of the kind; veteran

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

noun:

• Battle of Dan-no-ura; final battle of the Genpei War (1185)

noun:

• game played as a form of punishment by the loser of a contest

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom