noun:

• (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom

noun:

• regular election (triennial election of half of the House of Councillors) ➜ 参議院

noun / ~の noun:

• ataxia; loss of coordination of the muscles; failure of muscular coordination

noun:

• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper

noun:

• projecting part (of a headland, etc.) ［でばな・出鼻］
• moment of departure; (on the) point of going out
• outset; start; beginning

noun / suffix noun:

• clothes (esp. Western clothes)

suffix / counter:

• counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc. ➜ 一服

noun / ~の noun:

• position in a game of go or shogi; state of the game
• aspect of an affair; situation

expression:

• agency of fate; power of fate
• La forza del destino (opera by Verdi); the force of destiny

noun:

• number of blows (used in measuring the bpm of an air hammer, etc.)
• (number of) at bats - Baseball term ➜ 打数

noun:

• Actinopterygii (class of the ray-finned fishes comprising nearly 95% of the 25,000 species of fish)

noun:

• School of Diplomacy; one of the Schools of Thought during the Warring States period in China ➜ 諸子百家【しょしひゃっか】

noun:

• imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War
• portrait or photo of a person of high rank - honorific language

noun:

• road; path; street; route - abbreviation ➜ 道【みち】
• way; set of practices; rules for conducting oneself ➜ 道【みち】
• Buddhist teachings
• Taoism
• modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
• historical administrative region of Japan (Tokaido, Tosando, etc.)
• province (Tang-era administrative region of China)
• province (modern administrative region of Korea)

particle:

• indicates location of action; at; in - にて is the formal literary form
• indicates time of action
• indicates means of action; cause of effect; by

conjunction:

• and then; so

auxiliary:

• indicates continuing action ［で］ - alternate form of 〜て used for some verb types ➜ て

particle:

• indicates certainty, emphasis, etc. ［で］ - at sentence-end - Kansai dialect ➜ よ

noun:

• arrowhead
• target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
• the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に

noun:

• grandchild of Amaterasu (i.e. Ninigi no Mikoto) - archaism
• descendant of Amaterasu; person of imperial lineage; emperor

~の noun:

• certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

noun / suffix noun:

• just before; on the verge of; on the brink of
• just in front of; just ahead of

noun:

• interior of the womb (of a pregnant woman); interior of the uterus
• interior of a Buddhistic statue

noun:

• direction; way; side; area (in a particular direction)
• side (of an argument, etc.); one's part
• type; category
• field (of study, etc.)
• indicates one side of a comparison
• way; method; manner; means
• length (of each side of a square)

noun:

• upper tier; upper section; upper deck; upper row; upper step; upper grade; upper berth; top shelf
• place of honor; place of honour ➜ 上座
• dais; raised part of floor ➜ 上段の間
• overhead position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)

noun:

• personnel; members; lineup (of a team); roster; cast (of a play)
• announcement of next day's match-ups - Sumo term