noun:

• national confession of Japanese war guilt

noun:

• illegal copying of software, recorded music, etc. - From English "casual copy"

noun:

• Society of Jesus; Jesuits - early Japanese Christian term - archaism - From Portuguese "companhia" ➜ イエズス会

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• cap of a uniform

noun:

• young woman who acts like an old man - slang

expression:

• two halves of the whole; two wheels on which everything rolls

noun:

• first cockcrowing of the year

expression:

• under the pretext of ill health

noun:

• god of war - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed [literal]

noun:

• right of use; user rights

noun:

• form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) ➜ 宿曜

expression:

• contraction of "koto da" - from 事だ - colloquialism ➜ なんてこった・何てこと【なんてこと】

noun:

• Diet session up to the creation of the budget

noun:

• ship of the dead which appears if you go fishing the night of the Bon festival ➜ お盆

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

noun:

• degree of association; relevance ratio

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself out of despair (disgust with life) - four character idiom

noun:

• five ranks of nobility (in Japan, 1868-1946) ➜ 公爵【こうしゃく】・侯爵【こうしゃく】・伯爵【はくしゃく】・子爵【ししゃく】・男爵【だんしゃく】

noun / ~の noun:

• unheard-of; unparalleled - four character idiom

noun:

• offering of cloth (rope, paper, etc.) - Shintō term

noun / adjectival noun:

• being of a gentle disposition; being of a mild character - four character idiom

noun:

• year of the cock

noun:

• degree of kinship