noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

expression / noun:

• sacrament of penance and reconciliation

noun:

• Ottoman constitution of 1876

noun:

• the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)

noun:

• wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman

noun:

• maintenance of territorial integrity

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• obligation of restitution

expression / adjective:

• of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless - idiom

noun:

• edge of a gabled roof; verge - Architecture term

noun:

• Unryu style of grand champion's ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• member of the House of Councillors

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• reverse side of a paper
• reading between the lines - abbreviation ➜ 眼光紙背【がんこうしはい】

noun:

• degree of difficulty

ichidan verb:

• to be made much of; to be lionized; to be sought after

noun:

• sphere of influence - four character idiom

noun:

• rumor of a romance (rumour)

noun:

• out-of-school learning; off-campus learning

expression:

• off the top of one's head; from thin air
• from memory

noun:

• 25th of the month
• 25 days

noun:

• foods abstained from in hopes of having one's desire granted

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
• four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices)
• the four assemblies - in Tendai

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】