noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

noun:

• having good knowledge of a certain matter; person who has good knowledge of a certain matter; informed source ➜ 通

noun:

• ranking vice-minister in the Department of Worship (ritsuryo system); deputy minister - archaism ➜ 大輔【たいふ】

noun:

• free of charge

noun:

• practice of abandoning old people, usu. women

noun:

• superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) idea - four character idiom

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• top crease of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)
• sleeve cap (of Western clothing)

noun / ~する noun:

• verification of accounts; checking figures; arithmetic check

noun:

• number of words
• vocality

noun:

• line of force

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• greatest hero (mastermind) of the age

noun:

• beginning of a dispute

noun:

• lines of communication

noun:

• degenerative eye disorder caused by cloudiness in front of the pupil - obscure term ➜ 底翳

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a gate
• (Edo-period) house confinement

noun:

• feeling of the impending dissolution of parliament

noun:

• clearing of the river water

noun:

• generation of young people (esp. of the 1970s) apathetic about social issues

noun:

• guardian Ksitigarbha of childbirth (bodhisattva) ➜ 地蔵

noun:

• Chinese god of war - archaism

noun:

• source of protein; protein source