noun:

• everyday garment worn by men in ancient Japan - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting poetry or singing in a soft voice

noun:

• State Minister in Charge of Postal Services Privatization

noun:

• Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)

noun:

• man'yōgana written in kaisho or gyōsho style ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• bit part (e.g. in a film); extra

noun:

• ne bis in idem; prohibition against double jeopardy

noun:

• ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• strong smell of grass (esp.in summer heat)

noun:

• large undertaking attempted in a far-off land - archaism

expression / noun:

• being outnumbered (e.g. in a military context)

noun:

• food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot - Food term

noun:

• violent scene (in a movie, etc.)

noun:

• Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949) - obsolete term

noun:

• Japanese language (as a school subject in Japan)

expression / noun:

• canceled only in case of heavy rain

noun:

• Ayurveda (traditional system of medicine practiced in India)

pronoun:

• self-deprecating first person pronoun used in letters - archaism - male language

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• jumbled; in disarray
• scattered randomly about (small items)

noun:

• lowest ranking; worst (e.g. in a test) ➜ びり

adjectival noun:

• local; localized (as in pain or anesthesia); regional

adverb / ~と adverb:

• swaying (only once, in a large, slow motion)
• relaxedly

noun:

• cultivation of aesthetic sensibility; education in good taste

expression:

• to have confidence in one's own abilities - idiom

noun:

• five ranks of nobility (in Japan, 1868-1946) ➜ 公爵【こうしゃく】・侯爵【こうしゃく】・伯爵【はくしゃく】・子爵【ししゃく】・男爵【だんしゃく】