noun:

• adoption or rejection; choice; separating the needed from the unneeded

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - abbreviation ➜ 尊皇攘夷

noun:

• the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses

noun:

• shogi game with the superior player playing without the kaku

noun:

• conformism; following the crowd; swimming with the tide; me-tooism - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• opponent; adversary; the competition; the other side; one's enemy - four character idiom

noun:

• company name with the words "kabushiki kaisha" at the end ➜ 前株

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• stroll on the Ginza (i.e. the street)

noun:

• the wherewithal; means; the money (needed to do something)

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

expression:

• from the cradle to the grave

noun:

• plotting to overthrow the government (by assassinating the emperor) - sometimes むほん - archaism ➜ 八虐

noun:

• writings about the gods
• Shinto scripture (e.g. the Kojiki)

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun:

• ukyounodaibu (title under the ritsuryo system at the imperial court) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• tempura soba without the noodles

expression:

• missing the vital element

noun:

• Geisteswissenschaften (i.e. the humanities, excluding the arts); mental science

noun:

• Merostomata (group comprising the sea scorpions and the horseshoe crabs)

noun:

• Erinaceomorpha; order comprising the hedgehogs and the moonrats

noun:

• Giraffidae; family containing the giraffe and the okapi

noun:

• football (soccer) - humorous term - slang
• kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles - vulgar - slang

expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】