noun:

• standard of living

noun:

• residents of the capital; townsfolk

noun:

• law full of loopholes; toothless law

noun:

• the Hour of the Tiger (roughly 3-5 AM)

noun:

• influence of Buddhism; power of Buddhism - Buddhism term

noun:

• booklet of essays; magazine

noun / ~する noun:

• suspension of rations or payments

expression:

• object of envy

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

expression / noun:

• omniscient point of view (in narration)

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• fit of anger

noun:

• mixture of vinegar and some other flavouring (e.g. soy sauce, sugar, etc.)

noun:

• crime of bribery

noun:

• Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters) ➜ 天師道

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smoke animal out of its den

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of registration (in the census register)
• buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom ➜ 身請け

noun:

• act of war; hostile act

noun:

• Queen Mother of the West (an ancient Chinese goddess)

noun:

• run-of-the-mine coal

noun:

• bowl of rice

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on ➜ 主眼