noun:

• public goods (i.e. goods or services such as lighthouses, military installations, etc., which are provided by government) ➜ 集合財

noun:

• Commentary on the Kojiki (by Motoori Norinaga, 1798) ➜ 古事記

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to knit (one's eyebrows) ➜ 眉をひそめる

noun:

• something created (e.g. by the gods); creature

noun / ~する noun:

• shipping (by sea or air)

noun:

• (one's) domicile

noun:

• lintel (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors) - Architecture term ➜ 敷居

expression / noun:

• my spouse (esp. used to refer to one's wife); my wife; my husband

expression:

• (one) could even say that

noun:

• Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 牛

noun:

• bacterial wilt (caused by the bacteria Ralstonia solanacearum) - Medicine term

noun:

• shallow clogs (worn by nobles; originally made of leather, later made of black lacquered paulownia)

noun:

• Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)

noun:

• purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such) - often called yams in America, but this is technically incorrect

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cease being possessed (by the spirit of a fox); to be released from the grasp of the fox spirit; to be exorcised from the fox spirit

noun:

• Japanese variety of music box (invented in 1892 by Toda Kindo)

noun:

• annexation of Korea (by Japan; 1910-1945)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand)
• to own; to obtain

noun:

• being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

noun:

• useless employees (shunted off by a window to pass their remaining time until retirement)

noun:

• Chinese "winnowing basket" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ➜ 箕

noun:

• fraudulent sale of exorcism services (to people led to believe that they are possessed by evil spirits) - four character idiom

noun:

• widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断前部

noun:

• northern side house (to the rear of a main residence; often home to one's wife) ➜ 対の屋