noun:

• area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• natto made by a temple and given to supporters at the end of the year ➜ 寺納豆

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

noun:

• elementary school (in an educational system operated in Japan between 1941 and 1947)

expression:

• children are a bond between husband and wife; children hold marriages together - proverb

noun:

• loitering at night (between 11 pm and 4 am); late-night prowling

expression:

• the former and the latter; A and B

noun:

• regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

noun / ~の noun:

• brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows

noun:

• nether region; between the legs; groin; crotch

noun:

• words and deeds of the people of yore - four character idiom

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

noun:

• three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

noun:

• late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year ➜ 二百十日・二百二十日・台風
• name of the 28th roll of the Genji monogatari

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• Islamic State; IS; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; ISIS; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; ISIL

noun:

• the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; all directions
• surroundings ［しほう・よほう］
• many countries; the whole world ［しほう］
• all around; here and there ［よも］
• square; quadrilateral; four-sided figure ［しほう・よほう］
• four sides (of a square)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to make war (on); to wage war (against); to go to war (with); to fight (with); to do battle (against) - esp. 戦う
• to compete (against) - esp. 戦う
• to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight; to contend; to resist - esp. 闘う

noun:

• pogo; dance in which one jumps up and down to the beat of the music

noun:

• observing and reviewing the effects of a drug after it has been released onto the market

expression:

• paper lanterns and temple bells (esp. as an example of two things looking similar on the outside, but of a completely different nature); (like) chalk and cheese; you can't judge a book by its cover - obscure term ➜ 月と鼈【つきとすっぽん】