noun:

• man of the world; experienced in matters of the heart

noun:

• confirmation of the referee's decision of the bout outcome - Sumo term

noun:

• Oban; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神

noun:

• last day of the third month of the lunar calendar

adverb:

• on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving

noun:

• moon of the 19th day of the lunar month

noun:

• disturbance of sleep; nuisance in the middle of the night

noun:

• 1st day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar - obscure term

noun:

• worldly wisdom; knowledge of the ways of the world

noun / ~する noun:

• payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold
• inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to impersonate someone; to go under a false name; to make fraudulent use of someone's name ➜ 騙る【かたる】

noun:

• Eighth Route Army; 18th Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China

noun:

• ancestor's meritorious deeds; the evil effects of the lives of our predecessors

noun:

• unpadded kimono
• 1st day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar ［綿抜き］ - also written as 四月朔日 ➜ 綿抜の朔日

noun:

• governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines

noun:

• pit; hole - archaism
• kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north)

noun:

• assistant director (second highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 四等官

noun:

• consecration ritual for the conferral of the status of Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 阿闍梨

noun:

• General Headquarters (office of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers); GHQ

noun:

• abacus; flat slab forming the top part of the capital of a column - Architecture term - From Greek

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• lock of hair (on the side of the head)

noun:

• the question of limiting the use of Chinese characters