noun:

• periodic table of the elements - obscure term ➜ 周期表

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:

• game of (blindfolded) tag similar to the children's swimming pool game "Marco Polo"

noun:

• poem or song written by the emperor

noun:

• the average Joe; your average nice guy; Joe Blow; Joe Bloggs - four character idiom ➜ 熊さん八っつあん

noun:

• being under the rule of; being under the government of

noun:

• highest part of the shoulder (of clothing)

noun / ~する noun:

• turning a suspect over to the public prosecutor's office; committing a suspect to trial - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times ➜ 七変化【しちへんげ】
• the seven common disguises of ninja

noun / ~する noun:

• removing the astringent taste (from persimmons)

noun:

• line drive to the shortstop - Baseball term - From English "short liner"

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

noun:

• Acts of the Apostles (book of the Bible)

noun:

• taking the extrance exams of multiple schools

noun:

• the feeling between (new) lovers

noun:

• buying the services of a prostitute; whoring ➜ 傾城買い

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again

noun:

• fired earthenware vessel used by the emperor to clean his hands - archaism

expression:

• fair words fill not the belly; food before romance - proverb

noun:

• ancient Japanese poetry form with three verses in a 5-7-7 moraic pattern

noun:

• the present regime; the existing regime

noun:

• the Grand Shrines of Ise

noun:

• the price of fame; noblesse oblige

noun:

• financial contributions to the UN made by member-nations