noun:

• the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world

noun:

• the last days; the final years; the last generation

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

noun:

• the shogunate period; the days of the shogunate regime - four character idiom

noun:

• books related to the calendar; the calendar; the almanac ➜ 暦

~の noun / noun:

• along the road; at the side of the road

noun:

• barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)

expression:

• sashimi garnish
• something of no significance; something that can easily be done without

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭

noun:

• book or scroll that has been handed down through generations; book of secrets
• delivering a letter

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to exist
• to make a living; to subsist
• to be in effect; to be in use; to function
• to come to life; to be enlivened
• to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

noun:

• joint; knuckle
• tune; melody
• knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
• part; notable characteristic ➜ 思い当たるふしがある

noun / ~する noun:

• loss (of weight or volume, e.g. in transit); ullage; outage
• decrease (in value); reduction

noun / ~する noun:

• (historical, in China) abdication by an emperor in favor (favour) of a more virtuous successor

noun / ~する noun:

• separating words in Japanese with spaces (e.g. in kana-only books for children) - Linguistics term

noun:

• winning wrestler who remains ringside in case his involvement is needed in pre-bout rituals - Sumo term

noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

noun:

• Protectorate General of Annam; Han-period Chinese office established in Hanoi in 622 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• sex establishment in which staff dress in costumes (schoolgirl, nurse, etc.) - From English "image club"

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group - four character idiom

expression:

• all those interested (in the matter); all those willing; (from) all of us; (from) everyone concerned - four character idiom

noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to expose one's true colors (colours); to expose one's true character - idiom

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang