noun:

• radius of influence

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

noun:

• theories of Japanese cultural or racial uniqueness

noun:

• beginning of the game; kickoff; face-off

noun:

• in and around the city of Kyoto - four character idiom

noun:

• feeling or atmosphere or mood of a painting; the mood to paint

noun:

• bird of passage; migratory bird

noun:

• harassment, discrimination, bullying, etc. of staff and students at educational institutions - From English "academic harassment" ➜ パワーハラスメント

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• box in which ashes of the deceased are kept; box in which a funerary urn is kept

noun:

• Board of Retainers; Kamakura- and Muromachi-period government office - esp. さむらいどころ
• samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods) - esp. さぶらいどころ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give (a guest) the seat of honor (honour)

noun:

• the large number of temples in Kyoto - four character idiom

noun:

• feudal system of the shogunate and domains

noun:

• out of fuel

noun:

• distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage

noun:

• minimum number of votes required to elect a candidate

noun / ~する noun:

• love of reading

noun:

• while being out of the office or away from home

noun:

• sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain ➜ 御来光

noun:

• party of tourists

noun:

• First Epistle of Peter (book of the Bible)

noun:

• one side of a body

noun:

• mythical founder of Korea

noun:

• policy of cultivating distant countries while working to conquer those nearby - four character idiom