noun:

• expansion policy; road to expansion - four character idiom

noun:

• terrace culture

noun:

• dried lacquer
• dry lacquer (technique); kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer

noun:

• summer day

noun:

• carriage beautifully decorated with gold, silver, gems, etc., for use by Heian era nobles at festivals and like activities

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】

noun:

• first star of the Big Dipper
• top applicant in the civil service examination (Imperial China) - archaism

noun:

• substructure

noun:

• naval brigade; naval land forces

noun:

• air-damper (e.g. in chimney)
• wind door; door through which wind blows, e.g. to cool a room - archaism

noun:

• contrition - obscure term ➜ 痛悔

noun:

• bronco; unruly horse

noun:

• (key to) solution

noun / ~の noun:

• recalling the old days; nostalgia; reminiscences

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to catch a cold ➜ 風邪を引く

noun:

• perfect vacuum

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 伊弉冉尊・伊弉諾尊・軻遇突智・火結神・火之夜芸速男神

noun:

• nuclear reaction

noun:

• cylinder; magazine of a revolver

noun:

• seaside

noun:

• reapers

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sacrifice a bishop

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a can

adjective:

• calculating; mercenary; closefisted

noun:

• oddly shaped stone; oddly shaped rock