noun:

• eternalness; forever unchanging
• distant land over the sea; world of the dead - abbreviation ➜ 常世の国

noun:

• chamfering; beveling; bevelling
• rounding the edges (of a vegetable); trimming the corners

noun:

• poem written by the Emperor or a member of the imperial family

noun:

• Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)

noun:

• mi; 3rd note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• la; 6th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar - four character idiom

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

noun:

• grammatical rule allowing the usage of the continuative form as a conjunction

noun:

• the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• hot water or liquid (especially that below the surface of the earth)

noun:

• kanji radical 35 when at the bottom (as in the character for summer)

noun:

• pilgrimage of the Saigoku-Sanjūsansho (33 temples in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

noun:

• equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• Carcharhinus (the type genus of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• pavilion housing the empress's reception hall (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• divination that predicts the events of the whole year (esp. concerning crops) ➜ 年見

noun:

• internal sense ➜ 外官【がいかん】
• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 外官【げかん】

noun:

• Struthioniformes; order comprising the ratites (sometimes spec. only the ostriches)

noun / ~する noun:

• being in the center of attention again; coming back into the limelight