noun:

• poke in the forehead

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• group of buzzards (etc.) rising in an updraft (before the southward autumn migration)

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

noun:

• (while) holding a post or being in office

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• voiced consonant in Japanese - Linguistics term ➜ 清音・半濁音・濁点

noun:

• song in the style of the Heikyoku ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to grow in clusters

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• arriving in America

expression:

• continued luck in the fortunes of war - four character idiom

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Science and Technology Policy

noun:

• udon noodles in broth (no trimmings) ➜ 掛けうどん

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bear up in tragedy; to stand pain well; to hold one's temper - idiom
• to clench one's teeth; to grit one's teeth

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to sell in haste

noun:

• drinking, gambling, and buying women in prostitution

noun:

• monument to the faithful who died in battle

noun:

• horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient

noun:

• economic boom due to special procurements, esp. in wartime

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• late in life; one's later years

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to keep in mind and do as one has been told; to learn and obey; to act in accordance; to comply

noun:

• disparity in technology; technological gap; technology gap

godan ~く verb:

• to nod in agreement; to nod in assent