noun:

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star

noun:

• Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays

expression / adverb:

• anywhere; here and there

expression / ~の noun:

• common; run-of-the-mill; ordinary

noun:

• the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas

noun:

• Postal Bureau (within the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) ➜ 郵便業務【ゆうびんぎょうむ】

noun:

• Order for the Provision of Firewood and Water (1842)

noun:

• ISIL; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ➜ イスラム国

noun / ~する noun:

• falling of the yellow leaves and nuts (in autumn)

noun:

• the three friends of winter (pine, bamboo and plum)

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• battle; fight; combat

noun / ~する noun:

• defensive fight (battle)

noun:

• three-cornered fight

noun:

• stone-throwing fight

noun / ~する noun:

• fight; struggle; conflict

noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

noun:

• type of theater which combines elements of noh, kyogen, and kabuki with dances and popular songs (theatre)

noun:

• important place; strategic point; critical location