noun:

• Geisteswissenschaften (i.e. the humanities, excluding the arts); mental science

noun:

• schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

noun:

• westerly wind blowing around the time of the spring equinox

noun:

• southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

noun:

• cut of meat comprising the plate and the flank

noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• Erinaceomorpha; order comprising the hedgehogs and the moonrats

noun:

• Giraffidae; family containing the giraffe and the okapi

noun:

• public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 内官

noun:

• football (soccer) - humorous term - slang
• kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles - vulgar - slang

expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】

noun:

• Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the shogun ➜ 謝恩使

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun

noun:

• the part of a province furthest from the capital - archaism ➜ 道の口・道の中

noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 魂祭り【たままつり】・盂蘭盆

noun:

• the Siberia Intervention (1918-1922); the Siberian Expedition

noun:

• crawling with the belly against the floor (baby)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn

expression:

• enjoying a long life is a matter for congratulation; cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years [literal] - proverb

expression:

• order's up; one order ready; coming up; your order is ready
• problem solved; one down; all done

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be equal to the task; to be up to the job; to be capable of filling the post

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun:

• current era of excessive eating; era in which there is more than enough food; age of plenty; age of plentiful food - four character idiom

noun:

• Regional Rapid Service (JR West); Section Rapid Service; RRS; SRS; train service which is local for one section and express for another