noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a ceremony

noun:

• moment of force

noun:

• pessimistic view of life; pessimism Antonym: 楽天観

noun:

• unbiased estimate of population variance - Mathematics term

noun:

• order of chivalry; chivalric order

noun:

• difficult reading of a kanji

adverb / noun:

• the deepest bottom of the earth; never; not ... at all; on no account; for all the world; till doomsday

noun:

• hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry

noun:

• flock of chickens

noun:

• rate of change

noun:

• expiration of a term of service ➜ 年明け【ねんあけ】

noun:

• genre of action film or TV production with car chases or racing - From English "car action"

expression:

• no concern of mine; nothing to do with me ➜ 我関せず

noun:

• number of pages

noun:

• the rise of the curtain; opening (of play) ➜ 幕開け
• beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

noun:

• last and first days of the month - archaism

noun:

• case of frostbite

noun / ~する noun:

• being in general control of

noun:

• seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• combining a pair of events; joint - from 併用開催 - abbreviation

noun:

• disciple of Basho

noun:

• three-person operation of a puppet (bunraku)

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun / ~する noun:

• one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration - four character idiom

noun:

• point of sales system; POS system