noun:

• groove in the body of wooden plane which holds the blade

noun:

• official appointed by the Emperor

noun:

• inner side of the ankle

noun:

• creating patterns in human flesh through scarification

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• visitor's or pilgrims' lodgings in a temple; priest's quarters

noun:

• kanji "bird of the zodiac" radical (radical 164)

noun:

• type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later
• being dead drunk; being very drunk - original meaning - archaism

expression:

• in a word; to put it briefly; to make a long story short ➜ 手っ取り早く言えば

noun:

• a fire raging in one's own home

noun / ~する noun:

• entering the capital; entering Tokyo ➜ 退京

noun:

• just the two of them ➜ 二人っきり

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to use a stopgap measure to cope with an emergency

noun:

• character written in the highly cursive sōsho style ➜ 草書【そうしょ】

noun:

• one who furnishes the money

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

expression:

• the sooner, the better

noun:

• Nobel Prize in Physics

noun:

• alcohol combined with sugar, spices, fruit, etc.

noun:

• examinations in academic subjects

noun:

• plotting to overthrow the government (by assassinating the emperor) - sometimes むほん - archaism ➜ 八虐

noun:

• regaining the lead; turning the tables (again); second reversal

noun:

• the Book of Filial Piety

noun:

• seal over the edges of adjacent sheets; tally impression

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to speak in tongues