noun:

• coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

noun:

• work of art the creator has confidence in; work one is proud of

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

noun:

• time of departure; (on the) point of departure; just as one is leaving

expression / adjective:

• unperceived; unnoticed; unnoted; out-of-the-way; out of sight; inconspicuous; private ➜ 人目につく【ひとめにつく】

noun:

• six forms of the Shi Jing (genre: folk song, festal song, hymn; style: narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison)
• six forms of waka (allegorical, enumerative, metaphorical, allusive, plain, congratulatory)
• six principles of calligraphy
• six classes of kanji characters ➜ 六書

noun:

• tao-tie engraving; figure of a creature of Chinese mythology engraved on bronze ware during the Yin-Chou dynasty

noun / ~の noun:

• catarrhine (primate of infraorder Catarrhini having nostrils that are close together, esp. the Old World monkeys of family Cercopithecidae) ➜ 広鼻猿類

noun:

• Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto ➜ 大学寮・七大私学

noun:

• Cichlidae; family of fishes exhibiting fusion of the lower pharyngeal bones into a single tooth-bearing structure

noun:

• Cichlidae; family of fishes exhibiting fusion of the lower pharyngeal bones into a single tooth-bearing structure

expression:

• state of uncertainty; limbo; leaving unfinished with the intention of inflicting suffering; dragging out tortuously; half-killing a snake [literal]

noun:

• outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; bark; rind; crust; film (on the surface of a liquid); scum ➜ 上皮

noun:

• Jaws of Life (apparatus used to pry apart the wreckage of crashed vehicles) - trademark

noun:

• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

adverb:

• far off; in the distance; long ago; far; by far; far and away

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pin the enemy down; to glare another down (and render impotent)

noun:

• Meiji Constitution (Constitution of the Empire of Japan)

expression:

• the very image of health itself; picture of health

noun:

• President of the United States of America; US President

noun:

• abolition of the death penalty; abolition of capital punishment

noun:

• all members of the Diet; members of both houses

noun:

• Battle of Ueno (battle of the Boshin war, 1868)

noun:

• study of calculation (ritsuryo period); the way of calculation

expression / noun:

• restructuring of the financial industry; reorganization of financial systems