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】

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger ➜ 双鉤法

noun:

• policy of conquering Korea by military force

noun:

• false statement (misrepresentation) of one's academic career - four character idiom

noun:

• gagaku of Indian origin - archaism ➜ 雅楽

noun:

• National Government Defrayment Act for Reconstruction of Disaster-Stricken Public Facilities

noun:

• third of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• special administrative region of China (e.g. Hong Kong); SAR

expression:

• though sitting on a pile of riches, one comes back empty handed; to have a good opportunity only to let it slip from your grasp - proverb

noun:

• price of a cocoon - obscure term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to suppress the freedom of speech

noun:

• high official suspected of corruption - four character idiom

noun:

• cost of repairs

expression:

• at the head of an army

noun:

• pickled buds of chocolate vine, Japanese pepper tree, etc. - Food term

noun:

• contest of strength; trial of strength

noun:

• philosophy of common sense

expression / noun:

• wisdom of age; sagacity of one's years; old-man's wisdom