noun:

• Order of the Precious Crown, Peony

noun:

• master of the priests quarters

noun:

• cards on the board

noun / ~する noun:

• being in the service of; serving at; holding office

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "zu"; "za" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese - From Portuguese "calção" ➜ 袴

noun:

• the same handwriting

noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists ➜ 理系女子

noun:

• accepting (acknowledging) the reality - four character idiom

noun:

• stationed or resident in the UK

expression / noun:

• tragedy of the commons - Economics term ➜ 共有地の悲劇

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)

noun:

• beginning of the world

noun:

• a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• lacking the words to say what one means

noun:

• period from midnight until the early morning
• around 4 in the morning ➜ 寅の刻

noun:

• heir to the throne; successor to the throne

noun:

• the ten abominations (the ten most grievous offenses under traditional Chinese law) ➜ 八虐
• the ten evil deeds - Buddhism term ➜ 十善

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 旅所

noun:

• the said proposal

noun:

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

noun:

• the benevolent Imperial rule; the Imperial Way

noun:

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

expression:

• no time like the present; make hay while the sun shines; it's the auspicious day when you've just thought of it [literal] - proverb

expression:

• individual and the whole