noun:

• cosmopolitan (international) way of thinking; feeling for the wider world - four character idiom

noun:

• something done out of spite; snide remark; insinuation; innuendo; dig

noun:

• rays of the setting sun - obscure term

noun:

• unity of rider and horse - four character idiom

noun:

• emperor of Russia (prior to 1917); tsar; czar; tzar

noun:

• Board of Ceremonies (part of the Imperial Household Agency)

noun / ~の noun:

• left-of-center faction (group) - four character idiom

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• model featured in an advertising campaign - abbreviation - From English "campaign girl"

expression:

• of bad omen; ill augur; boding evil; bad fortune

noun:

• stroke-count of a kanji

ichidan verb:

• to begin some form of lifestyle

noun:

• ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead

noun / ~する noun:

• raising out-of-season crops with artificial heat

noun:

• stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus - obscure term ➜ 地謡前

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

noun:

• retirement at the behest of one's employer ➜ 肩たたき

noun:

• influx of Taiwanese pop culture (into Japan) ➜ 韓流

noun:

• sense of fulfillment; sense of completeness; sense of accomplishment; sense of contentment

noun:

• Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)

noun:

• stripping a Diet member of arrest immunity

noun:

• points of similarity

noun:

• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

noun:

• cherish the memory of; yearn for

noun:

• an adult-age eldest son who has yet to come into his inheritance; (a young adult still) living at home; a dependent