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

expression:

• speak of the devil - proverb ➜ 噂をすれば影が射す

noun:

• pupil and (dark) iris of the eye ➜ 白目【しろめ】

~の noun:

• dark-eyed; sloe-eyed

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of general affairs) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

expression:

• citizen of the world; world citizen

noun:

• three-stranded

expression:

• first day of the cock in the eleventh month

noun:

• account of the hardships one has encountered

noun:

• the empress, the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager ➜ 三后
• emperor's second consort
• empress; palace of the empress
• building of a Shinto shrine built on middle ground
• demesne of the imperial palace ➜ 皇居

noun / ~の noun:

• not submitted to the selecting committee

noun:

• the passing of time

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to accept the conditions