noun:

• theme of the Imperial Poetry Contest

noun / ~する noun:

• cherishing the memory of; yearning for

noun:

• Gate of the Celestial Rock Cave

noun:

• river raised above the surrounding land

noun:

• the gods of heaven and earth - four character idiom

noun:

• high in the sky; highest heaven

noun / ~する noun:

• delivering a message to the emperor

noun:

• reading Chinese in the Japanese order

ichidan verb:

• to throw up (in the air)

noun:

• the old Kanto-area folk songs

noun:

• being buried in the same grave

noun / ~する noun:

• taking the same car or train

noun:

• namesake; person with the same name

adverb / noun:

• night and day; all the time - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• marrying into the wife's family

noun:

• beans of the bean-scattering ceremony

noun:

• the 8 districts of feudal Japan

noun:

• Buddhist services during the equinoctial week

expression:

• necessity is the mother of invention - proverb

noun:

• the front of a building; facade

adverb / ~の noun:

• on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently

noun:

• Usnisavijaya; Victorious Goddess of the Chignon - Buddhism term

adjectival noun:

• the age of wisdom; around forty

noun:

• USA, Britain, France and the Netherlands

noun:

• cold wind from the northern uplands