noun:

• confiscation of possessions

noun:

• stream of water cascading onto one's back (in an onsen); pelting water; waterfall shower

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

noun:

• non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin

noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

expression / adjective:

• of good omen; augur well (for); boding well for; good fortune ➜ 縁起がいい【えんぎがいい】

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

noun:

• chanting an invocation (to Amida Buddha); reciting a prayer - Buddhism term ➜ 観念念仏

expression / ichidan verb:

• to know much of the world

noun:

• width of character - IT term

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

noun:

• sense of relief; feeling of relief

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start ➜ 幕を閉じる

noun:

• chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment

adjectival noun / noun:

• out-of-date; outdated

expression:

• a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to enjoy the trust and confidence of

noun:

• schedule of events; calendar of events

noun:

• roadside stone distance indicators placed at intervals of one cho (approx. 109 meters) ➜ 町【ちょう】

noun:

• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

noun:

• assignment of rooms

noun:

• enumeration of the names of countries

noun:

• relationship of mutual trust; fiduciary relation - four character idiom

noun:

• spirits of past emperors

noun:

• path taken by school of fish; fish ladder; fishway