noun:

• five ranks of nobility (in Japan, 1868-1946) ➜ 五等爵・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:

• var. of puppet popular in the Edo period

noun:

• point of view; way of seeing

noun / ~する noun:

• interpretation of radiograms; radiographic image interpretation

noun:

• rate of expansion

noun:

• bill of indictment

noun:

• sense of the trend of the times; sensitivity to the changing times - four character idiom ➜ 時世感覚

noun:

• legal age of marriage

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• of the land - archaism

noun:

• Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki

noun / ~する noun:

• signature of an emperor or noble

noun:

• residence of a government official in the Ryukyu Kingdom - archaism

noun:

• tone of an image

noun:

• sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl of rice (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 一本箸

noun:

• spirit of goodness

noun:

• amateurish (dilettantish) way of doing business - four character idiom

noun:

• an ornate style

noun:

• rights of authorship

noun:

• man of perennial youth; man who never loses his youthful vigor - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia
• something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• punctuation marks such as the dakuten
• Chonchon; South American mythical bird - From

noun:

• famous brand of sake; choice sake

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to accept an object and hold it reverently over one's head

noun:

• first laugh of the year

noun:

• recitation of Amida Buddha's name on a specified day and time period (practice of Pure Land Buddhists) - Buddhism term