noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.

expression:

• everybody doing well (e.g. purchaser, buyer and society); three-way satisfaction; all three parties doing well

noun:

• seventh of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Venus and west) ➜ 九星

expression / noun:

• shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

noun:

• Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)

noun:

• Oxbridge (i.e. Oxford and Cambridge)

adjective:

• (plump and) happy-looking

noun:

• Tsukushi (provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo in northern Kyushu) - archaism

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)

noun:

• nature's beauty (cool breeze and bright moon)

noun:

• senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest) - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・神主
• grasshopper; locust - obscure term

noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); IS; ISIL

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap) ➜ 平瓦・瓦当

expression:

• gifted with two things (usu. beauty and intelligence) ➜ 才色兼備

noun / ~する noun:

• squatting (usu. with elbows on knees and often while smoking, typically considered a low-class posture)

noun:

• San-you region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, southern Yamaguchi and sometimes western Hyogo prefectures)

noun:

• Trimma nomurai (species of goby found in Japan, Indonesia and New Caledonia)

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• spotted scat (Scatophagus argus, species of Indo-Pacific scat which occurs in green and red morphs); green scat; red scat

noun:

• leu (currency of Rumania and Moldova) - From or

noun:

• entertainment quarters (food and geisha)

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• death (and entering the hereafter)