noun:

• letter, etc. from another party; correspondence - polite language

noun:

• knowledge gained (information acquired) from newspapers - four character idiom

noun:

• nervous breakdown; neurosis; sickness from anxiety

noun:

• employee posted away from their family

noun / ~する noun:

• resigning from a government post - obscure term

noun:

• Thai; person from Thailand

noun:

• clans supposedly descended from the gods

noun:

• formative experience (from one's youth)

noun:

• resignation from a company on marriage

noun:

• wooden flower whittled from a log - archaism

noun:

• ostracism (from a village or community)

noun:

• town-watches from the Edo period

noun:

• high-quality sugar imported from China ➜ 和三盆

~の noun:

• on the way home from work

noun:

• herbal medicine prepared from dried earthworms

noun / ~する noun:

• holding back (from selling); standing out

noun:

• double doors opening from the centre ➜ 観音開き【かんのんびらき】

noun:

• exile from Kyoto (Edo-period punishment)

noun:

• natto made from ground soybeans ➜ 納豆【なっとう】

noun:

• cold wind descending from the mountains ➜ 山背

noun:

• printing type made from wood

noun:

• cat (esp. one imported from China) - archaism

noun:

• the Five Highways (radiating from Edo) ➜ 東海道【とうかいどう】・中山道【なかせんどう】

noun:

• flour made from cooked glutinous rice

noun:

• Tibetan drink made from dried lichen ➜ 虫苔