noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• martial art based on the use of the iron fan ➜ 鉄扇

noun:

• washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)

noun:

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

noun:

• schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

noun:

• westerly wind blowing around the time of the spring equinox

noun:

• southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

noun:

• cut of meat comprising the plate and the flank

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:

• public official stationed outside the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 内官

noun:

• Ryukyuan mission to Edo upon the change of the shogun ➜ 謝恩使

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun

noun:

• the part of a province furthest from the capital - archaism ➜ 道の口・道の中

noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 魂祭り【たままつり】・盂蘭盆

noun:

• the Siberia Intervention (1918-1922); the Siberian Expedition

noun:

• crawling with the belly against the floor (baby)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be equal to the task; to be up to the job; to be capable of filling the post

noun / ~する noun:

• immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

noun:

• luck in a lottery; luck in a raffle

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to welter in blood; to be covered in blood

noun:

• phonetic change; change in sound; shift in sound