noun:

• age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

noun:

• house covered with dew; place covered with dew - archaism

noun:

• keeping over the summer

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let the rent fall into arrears

noun:

• phone in request (e.g. calling a radio station to request a song) - abbreviation ➜ 電話リクエスト

noun:

• dish of spicy boiled pork, usu. served with slices of cucumber - Food term - From Chinese "yún bái ròu"

noun:

• doyen of the diplomatic corps

noun:

• pattern now in fashion

expression:

• passing the center line

noun:

• the daimyo of a feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be pleasure to the eye; to delight the eye; to please the eye; to feast one's eyes on ➜ 目を悦ばす

noun:

• wearing something for the first time ➜ 下ろし【おろし】

noun:

• type of soft Japanese confectionery made with rice flour (somewhat similar to Turkish delight)

godan ~す verb:

• to pass the time talking

noun:

• the whole fief

noun:

• awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

noun:

• commentaries of the ancients

noun:

• The Five Classics (of Confucianism) ➜ 詩経【しきょう】・書経【しょきょう】・礼記【らいき】・易経【えききょう】・春秋【しゅんじゅう】

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "a" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音

noun:

• the philosophy of the European Enlightenment

adverb:

• in itself; as it is; in its own way; as suits the occasion ➜ 形【なり】
• within its capacity; within limitations

noun:

• the Crusaders

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• the five sentence structures (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC) - Linguistics term ➜ 基本五文型