noun:

• depending on the (one's) situation (circumstances); at one's pleasure - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• irrespective of the occasion; indiscriminately

noun:

• the ancients; ancient people

noun / ~する noun:

• entering the service of a daimyo

expression:

• refraining from offering the (New Year's) greetings during the period of mourning - four character idiom

expression:

• the darkness of ignorance

noun:

• the passage of people and horses; coming and going of people and horses - four character idiom

noun:

• corner seating (noh), facing the corner pillar

noun:

• freedom of the press

noun:

• prostitute of the lowest class (Edo period)

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period - abbreviation ➜ 幸若舞

noun:

• slip of the tongue; misstatement; verbal slip-up

noun:

• principle holding that any matters left unresolved at the end of one Diet session are not to be carried over to the next

expression:

• the bounds of reason; the limits of (common) sense

noun:

• minister outside the cabinet; junior minister

~の noun:

• on the way home from work

noun:

• debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) - archaism

noun:

• the same thing

noun:

• wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll

noun:

• seventeenth day of the month
• seventeen days

noun:

• the Satsuma Rebellion

noun:

• writings about the gods
• Shinto scripture (e.g. the Kojiki)

noun:

• rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same stable - Sumo term

expression:

• the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one - proverb

expression:

• strike while the iron is hot - proverb