noun:

• test of general knowledge

noun:

• sound of a word; sounds of speech; phoneme

noun:

• method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers

noun:

• price per unit of area; price per square meter (metre)

noun:

• Chūgoku region of western Honshu (incl. Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Tottori and Yamaguchi prefectures)

noun:

• wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• as the sound of surging water
• vigorous; surging; welling

noun:

• study of how to be a good emperor

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