noun:

• natural gifts
• Tenju era (of the Southern Court) (1375.5.27-1381.2.10)

noun / ~する noun:

• having an audience with someone of very high social standing (e.g. the emperor) - humble language

noun:

• inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; the trouble of coming (going) [literal] - polite language

noun:

• wharf roach (species of isopod closely related to the sea slater; Ligia exotica)

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

expression / noun:

• coming to nothing ➜ 水泡
• bubble on the surface of water
• something that is short-lived

noun:

• banners of thanks for the full house (in sumo tournaments, soccer matches, concerts, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• first ring-entering ceremony of the newly promoted grand champion, performed at Meiji shrine

noun:

• (a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• the large number of bridges over canals and rivers in Naniwa (present-day Osaka) - four character idiom

noun:

• Ginkgoaceae; family of flowering plants whose only extant member is the ginkgo ➜ 銀杏【いちょう】

expression:

• right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...

noun:

• days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be extremely thorough, focusing on even the finest of details

expression / noun:

• casting off the drudgery of everyday life and doing as one pleases; kicking back

noun:

• horizontally-wrapped fabric forming the bottom part of some traditional Japanese clothing

noun:

• war started or ended with the push of a single 'launch' button - obscure term - From English "button war"

noun:

• Xi'an Incident (involving the arrest and confinement of Chiang Kai-shek, December 1936)

noun:

• loss of a match that is 'called' part way into the game

noun:

• (in China) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A) ➜ 黄鐘【おうしき】・十二律
• sixth lunar month

noun:

• temple bell
• (in Japan) 7th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G sharp) ➜ すい賓・十二律

noun:

• (in China) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F) ➜ 十二律・勝絶
• second lunar month

noun:

• Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; Jan. 1, 1946)

noun:

• Dioscorea tokoro (species of wild yam)
• old man living in the countryside ［やろう］