noun:

• Alcyone (star in the constellation Taurus, brightest of the Pleiades); Eta Tauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• eternalness; forever unchanging
• distant land over the sea; world of the dead - abbreviation ➜ 常世の国

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain in the morning sky (i.e. the moon and stars) ➜ 暮れ残る

noun:

• leap up from the initial charge in order to surprise the opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• mi; 3rd note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• la; 6th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

noun:

• adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear ➜ 臨機応変

noun / ~の noun:

• hot water or liquid (especially that below the surface of the earth)

noun:

• kanji radical 35 when at the bottom (as in the character for summer)

noun:

• pilgrimage of the Saigoku-Sanjūsansho (33 temples in the Kinki region) ➜ 西国三十三所

noun:

• Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible) - obscure term ➜ コリント人への手紙

noun:

• Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible)

noun:

• equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• Carcharhinus (the type genus of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• pavilion housing the empress's reception hall (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)