noun:

• sign of happiness; good omen

noun:

• nature of a disease

noun:

• fountainhead of culture; Ministry of Education

noun:

• var. of refined sugar

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• organ of public opinion

noun / ~する noun:

• looking for a change of occupation; looking for a new job

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

noun:

• work of Sesshū

noun:

• place for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water when visiting shrines

expression:

• Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit
• Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ) ➜ ロゴス

noun:

• point of contact between ocean currents

noun:

• home territory of a powerful figure; Imperial Court; businessman's turf; Shogun's headquarters ➜ 膝元【ひざもと】

noun:

• sense of virtue - four character idiom

noun:

• price of paper

expression:

• man is the crown of creation - proverb

noun:

• supervised trading of a stock, e.g. during delisting

noun:

• defence of Buddhist doctrines; god who defends Buddhist doctrines - Buddhism term
• defence of the constitution
• religious power to dispel demons and diseases

noun:

• nape of the neck

noun:

• Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ➜ 文部科学大臣

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to get tired of waiting; to grow impatient

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

expression:

• struggling to grab hold of one's opponent's belt with one's dominant hand - Sumo term

noun:

• six objective fields of the senses (shape and colour, sound, scent, flavour, physical feeling, and mental presentation) - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make full use of (skill, experience, authority, etc.); to take full advantage of (something); to rely on ➜ 物を言う【ものをいう】