noun:

• person of high rank - archaism

noun:

• system allowing for election of the prime minister by popular vote

noun:

• ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)

noun:

• evasion of the law

noun:

• university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages - abbreviation ➜ 外国語大学

noun:

• party of officials

noun:

• blow to a vital point of a person's body - Martial Arts term ➜ 当て身【あてみ】

noun:

• true form of a buddha - archaism - Buddhism term ➜ 垂迹
• land of origin ［ほんち］

noun:

• head priest of temple formerly led by founder of sect

noun:

• policy of reducing acreage (under cultivation)

expression / noun:

• motion of a baby gently hitting his own face with both of his hands

noun:

• essential elements of information

noun:

• typeprint which resembles brush-stroke forms of characters

noun:

• priest traveling as part of his training (travelling)

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

noun:

• Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

noun:

• playing with a handicap of one rook or bishop - Shōgi term ➜ 駒落ち【こまおち】

noun:

• grains of sand

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to come to an end ➜ 休する
• to rest

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• keeping calm and collected at times of disappoinment; maintaining a serene state of mind in adversity - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• buying a CD, book, etc. because of the cover

adjectival noun / noun:

• lack of refinement; inelegance; want of artistic taste; lack of poetic sense ➜ 没風流

noun:

• fifth division of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am) - archaism

noun:

• a sense of the seasons

noun:

• an emotionalist