noun:

• plane of polarisation; plane of polarization

noun:

• beauty of style; beauty of form

noun:

• law of thermodynamics; laws of thermodynamics - Physics term ➜ 熱力学の法則【ねつりきがくのほうそく】

expression / noun:

• law of superposition; principle of superposition - Geology term

expression / noun:

• sea of fire; sea of flame

noun:

• age of majority; age of adulthood

noun:

• dislike of China; hatred of China

noun:

• date of manufacture; day of manufacture

noun / ~する noun:

• public appeal (e.g. for contributions); public offering (of securities); public advertisement (of a post); open recruitment

noun:

• top of a flight of stairs; exit involving a descent (e.g. from a bus)

noun:

• nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)

expression:

• variant of "de arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period ➜ ありんす

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument ➜ 糸道【いとみち】

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

~と adverb / adverb:

• ticktock - onomatopoeia
• chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; clicking; clacking; clattering - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dry and hard; (frozen) stiff - onomatopoeia
• hidebound; die-hard; stubborn; obstinate; bigoted - onomatopoeia
• scared stiff; tense; nervous; frightened - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in Chinese astrology)
• 12-year Chinese zodiac

noun:

• mediation; good offices; intervention; mediator; middleman
• influential person; person of influence
• eloquence; eloquent person - archaism
• way of speaking - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun:

• cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar ➜ 法華八講

noun / ~の noun:

• settlement of accounts; closing accounts; financial results; reporting (of accounts)

noun:

• guest of honour; guest of honor; privileged guest; visitor

noun:

• height of summer; high summer; hottest part of the summer

noun:

• record of war; war chronicle; commentaries of war; military history

noun:

• seller; selling side ➜ 買い方
• method of selling; art of selling ➜ 買い方