noun:

• the whole year; all the year

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• the surface reason

expression / ichidan verb:

• to change the position of

noun:

• side of the breast; sideboob; side-boob ➜ 横パイ

noun:

• the morning after (having slept together) - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• the New Year dawns ➜ 年明ける

noun:

• poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

noun:

• the path of one's life

expression:

• the past; bygone days (years, age, etc.) ➜ 来し方
• the course (route) one has come by; the direction one came from

noun:

• the Gulf War

noun:

• historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to strike at the root of an evil

noun:

• the first

noun:

• the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not" - four character idiom

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom - obscure term ➜ 猿袴

noun:

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis); prince's feather

noun:

• Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the shogun ➜ 謝恩使

noun / ~する noun:

• crossing the sea

noun:

• worlds of the ten directions - Buddhism term

noun:

• tachibana tree west of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿・左近の桜

noun:

• electoral system allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district; multi-member constituent electoral system ➜ 小選挙区制

ichidan verb:

• to die at the top

noun:

• small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands

expression / ichidan verb:

• to swerve from the course