noun:

• letter of commendation

noun:

• blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)

noun:

• (one's) handling of the reins; how well one controls things

noun / ~の noun:

• under the rule of

noun / ~する noun:

• dying of love

noun:

• way of thinking; thought pattern; thinking pattern

noun:

• director of the Office of Court Ladies (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• third watch of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am)

noun:

• trunk of an elephant

noun:

• fourteenth day of the month
• fourteen days

noun:

• legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State - honorific language

noun:

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

noun:

• school of popular writing

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• obsolete rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same group of stables - Sumo term

noun:

• first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
• initial share price during a public offering

noun:

• foundation of a great project; base of a great enterprise

noun:

• law of refraction - obscure term ➜ スネルの法則

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple - abbreviation ➜ 供奉僧
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine

noun:

• body of (genital) erectile tissue (incl. corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum)

noun:

• Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto) - Buddhism term ➜ 和讃【わさん】・来迎【らいごう】

noun:

• disposition of troops; battle formation

expression / noun:

• Battle of Rokuhara (Genkō War, 1333); Capture of Rokuhara

adverb / noun:

• (sound) of clashing swords; (arguing) as fiercely as clashing and blocking swords - four character idiom

noun:

• jeans worn low, exposing part of buttocks