noun:

• Rhinophrynidae; family of frogs

noun:

• Cupedidae; family of beetles

noun:

• Micromalthidae; family of beetles

noun:

• Rhysodidae; family of beetles

noun:

• Carabidae; family of beetles

noun:

• Paussidae; family of beetles

noun:

• Brachinidae; family of beetles

noun:

• Brachininae; family of beetles

noun:

• Cicadidae; family of cicadas

noun:

• Tettigarctidae; family of cicadas

noun:

• Serpulaceae; family of fungi

noun:

• Gnetaceae; family of gymnosperms

noun:

• Siluridae; family of catfishes

noun:

• royal family

noun:

• hawkfish (any fish of family Cirrhitidae)

noun:

• Testudinidae; tortoise family

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

noun:

• the sun, the moon and the stars; the heavenly bodies - four character idiom

noun:

• sky; the heavens ➜ 下土
• God; the Lord; the Creator; the Supreme Being
• ascension (into heaven)

noun:

• the emperor's person
• the body of Christ; the Host; the Eucharist; Holy Communion

noun / ~する noun:

• the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor - four character idiom

noun:

• Islamic holy books (the Pentateuch, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran)

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

noun:

• the whole country; the public; the world; the ruling power; having one's own way