noun:

• seat of honor; seat of honour

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

noun:

• soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)

noun:

• hiring a number of geisha for an entertainment

noun:

• room connecting the two main rooms of a building; intermediate room

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be the mother of someone's child

noun / ~する noun:

• die of old age

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター

noun:

• the three entertainment district enterprises: eating houses, geisha houses, meeting places for assignations, etc.

noun:

• thirteenth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• testimony of a witness

noun:

• art for art's sake

noun:

• talent for poetry; poetic genius

noun:

• method of payment

noun:

• quality of a product ➜ 品柄
• feel of goods (taste, style)

noun:

• appearance of ears of grain

noun:

• individual (different) ways of doing things; being different (varied) for each item (type) - four character idiom

noun:

• the principle of honorable death and no surrender - four character idiom

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

noun:

• literary term for the sun

expression:

• one of them

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• year of birth; this year

noun / adjectival noun:

• coming by ample servings of delicious food; being blessed with good fortune - four character idiom

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• Order of Saint Benedict