noun:

• Shrine of the God of War

noun:

• member of the House of Councillors

noun:

• length of the course of study

noun:

• enumeration of the names of countries

noun:

• out of the range of communication

noun:

• within the sphere of influence (of) - four character idiom

noun:

• (phenomenon of) precession of the equinoxes

noun:

• truth of the cessation of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

noun:

• member of the House of Councillors

noun:

• head of the Department of Worship ➜ 神祇官

noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

noun:

• intelligent design (theory that life or the universe must have been designed by an intelligent being)

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

noun:

• stroke (dash) of the pen; (force of) brushwork

noun / ~の noun:

• tip of the tongue; speech; way of talking

noun:

• tip of the tongue; speech; way of talking

noun:

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

expression:

• the source of all kinds of diseases ➜ 万病

noun:

• (pair of) bellows - Buddhism term ➜ 踏鞴
• lungs (of the body)

noun:

• south of the capital
• southern part of Kyoto

noun:

• agenda; calendar of proceedings; order of the day

noun:

• gender preselection; selection of the sex of offspring

noun:

• Edo-period unit of silver coinage ［銀目］
• steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)
• silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica) - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ 銀目鯛

noun:

• just before a war - archaism
• day before a holiday - archaism
• day before the one on which prostitutes were forced to accept customers - archaism ➜ 紋日