noun:

• loyalty to the emperor; loyalism

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period (named after its similarity to the Buddhist tokko) ➜ 独鈷

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

noun:

• garbage in, garbage out - IT term

noun:

• location thought to be flowing with mystical energy - From English "energy spot" ➜ パワースポット

expression:

• better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond - four character idiom

noun:

• taking action although it may result in death; acting while being fully prepared to die

noun:

• with a telephone

noun:

• the stricken area; damaged area

expression:

• the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping) - obscure term - four character idiom

noun:

• in Kyoto or the capital

noun:

• inside the ear

noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

noun:

• the emperor's personal favour - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to die in (a foreign land); to engage in something until death comes; to do something for the rest of one's life

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to recall the old days

noun:

• the same opinion

noun:

• addiction to the printed word; reading addict; book (print) junkie - four character idiom

noun:

• (in Japan) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F) - archaism ➜ 十二律・夾鐘

noun / ~する noun:

• excellence (of scenery, etc.) - usu. しょうぜつ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to meet with defeat

noun:

• going down the road; travelling; traveling
• lyric composition describing scenery a traveler sees on the way (traveller)
• eloping

noun:

• buying in installments; buying in instalments

expression / ichidan verb:

• to able to enter the New Year (i.e. have work finished, debts paid, etc.)

noun:

• the good and bad

noun:

• toilet in a Zen temple ➜ 東司