noun:

• Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef) ➜ 任せる・任せる

noun:

• electoral system allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district; multi-member constituent electoral system ➜ 小選挙区制

noun:

• Last Judgment (judgment of mankind to take place when the world ends, according to various religious traditions)

noun:

• grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• combover; comb-over; bamboo screen head (due to looking like the slats of a bamboo screen) [literal] ➜ すだれ・バーコードヘア

noun:

• Japanese confectionery store (orig. one of high standing, supplying the imperial court, etc.); Japanese confectionery maker

noun:

• tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side) ➜ ソフト面

noun:

• people who lived in Kyushu in ancient times, and who opposed the state of Yamato

noun / ~する noun:

• departing early in the morning
• departing earlier than scheduled

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• premature (e.g. of an disease); early onset - Medicine term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• last spring; the spring of last year

noun:

• what day?; what day of the week?

noun:

• former post; former occupant of the post

noun:

• poetry of the Tang period; Tang poetry

noun / ~の noun:

• adrenal cortex; cortex of the adrenal gland

noun:

• left-wing party; party of the left

noun:

• grammar of the classical literature; classical grammar

noun:

• Diet members caucus; caucus of the Diet

noun:

• Diet members' caucus; caucus of the Diet - abbreviation ➜ 議員連盟

noun:

• Bird Day; Day of the Bird

noun:

• government of the Qing dynasty; Qing government

noun:

• islands of the Pacific Ocean; Pacific Islands

noun:

• the open sky and the serene sea; as open as the sky and serene as the sea; magnanimous - four character idiom

noun:

• heresy; evil ways; path of evil ［魔道］
• sorcery; black magic
• netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam - Buddhism term ➜ 六道

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)