noun:

• type of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines which is often used in seals

noun:

• date of manufacture; day of manufacture

noun:

• the crime of revealing a secret; breach of confidence

expression / adjective:

• capable of anything; liable to do ➜ しかねない

noun:

• the twelve gates of Heian's greater palace ➜ 平安京・大内裏

expression:

• one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer - four character idiom

noun:

• sitting between the host and guest of honour at a drinking party (honor); companion

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a hard time of it; to have a bitter experience

noun:

• Minister of Justice (Zhou-dynasty China) ➜ 六卿

noun:

• second guest of honour (at a tea ceremony); second guest of honor ➜ 正客

noun:

• appearance of the laity ➜ 僧体
• unrefined appearance; vulgar style

noun:

• being out of

noun:

• symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk)
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓

noun:

• field of vegetables; market garden; truck garden; vegetable garden; kitchen garden

noun:

• reparation in the form of service

noun:

• Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

expression / noun:

• negation of the negation (in the Hegelian dialectic)

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• Doctor of Commercial Science

noun:

• construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time

noun:

• area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

noun / ~する noun:

• departure of a ship

noun:

• conference of representatives

noun:

• southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

noun:

• supporters of the shogun