adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• year of birth; this year

noun / adjectival noun:

• coming by ample servings of delicious food; being blessed with good fortune - four character idiom

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• Order of Saint Benedict

noun:

• fiftieth day after the birth of a child
• fifty days

noun:

• junior board of directors systems

noun:

• starting an enterprise and (or) carrying it to final success - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• the passage of electric current

noun:

• cost of raw materials; raw material cost

noun:

• row of racks (coined word)

noun:

• helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person ➜ 老冠
• kanji "old" radical at top

noun:

• exchange of letters; correspondence

noun:

• obfuscated style of Japanese text, used particularly by young women in keitai emails

noun:

• an old woman's gray hair - four character idiom
• old woman with white hair

noun:

• year of the snake

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

noun:

• number of stairs or stories (storeys)
• rank; order - Mathematics term

noun:

• illumination of bridges, buildings, trees, etc. at night; (architectural) floodlighting - From English "light up"

suffix:

• top of ...; head of ... - after a noun
• the moment that ... - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• frenulum of prepuce of penis

noun:

• philosophy of education

noun:

• apex of prosperity

expression:

• one's frame of mind; way one looks at things

noun:

• Ministry of Justice (1869-1871 CE) ［ぎょうぶしょう］
• Ministry of Justice (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun / ~する noun:

• change of facial appearance; change of face ➜ 面変わり