noun:

• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

noun:

• Heian era court lady's song (accompanying men's oouta); court lady singing a kouta ➜ 大歌
• ditty; ballad; short, hummable, popular tune from Muromachi era to early Edo era ➜ 小唄・端唄
• kyogen kouta; style of kyogen song based on the Muromachi songs, often love ballad
• noh kouta; unusual style of noh song based on the Muromachi songs

noun:

• iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards ➜ 居合い
• iai sword-drawing performance (used during the Edo period to sell medicine and other wares)

adjective:

• light; well-lit; well-lighted
• bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; brightly-colored
• cheerful; bright; spirited; sunny (e.g. disposition)
• encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.); promising; of fair prospects
• familiar (with); knowledgeable (about); well versed (in) - as 〜に明るい
• fair (e.g. politics); clean; impartial

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hear; to catch (the sound of something)
• to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to learn of (something)
• to get used to hearing

noun:

• small tatami room
• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 放ち出
• room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

noun:

• (on the) road; (on the) way; (in the) street

noun:

• the whole reel; the whole volume; the complete set

noun:

• the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world

noun:

• the last days; the final years; the last generation

noun:

• books related to the calendar; the calendar; the almanac ➜ 暦

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

expression:

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

noun:

• Ama no Ukihashi (the heavenly floating bridge; by which gods are said to descend from the heavens to the earth) - archaism

noun:

• sixth day of the month
• six days

noun:

• mind; heart; spirit
• the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)

noun / suffix noun:

• equation; formula; expression
• ceremony
• style
• enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier ➜ 内閣総理大臣

noun:

• remains; traces; vestiges; relics
• (the sorrow of) parting
• end

noun:

• late at night; small hours of the morning

noun:

• interest; entertainment; pleasure
• implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義

noun:

• internationally-minded person; cosmopolitan; citizen of the world
• international celebrity

noun:

• fork; junction; parting of the ways
• turning point