noun:

• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

noun:

• crime of rioting

noun:

• adding something to or altering a finished work of art; something added or altered in this manner

noun:

• wishes of happiness - humble language

adjective:

• smelling of incense; overly pious

noun:

• foyer (lobby, lounge) of theatre, hotel, etc. ➜ ロビー

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) - obscure term ➜ 四衆

noun:

• reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree - Shintō term

noun:

• sound of a horn announcing daybreak - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• this academic subject or field of study; Confucian studies

noun:

• work of art; artwork; objet d'art

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers ➜ 単鉤法

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• angle of rotation

noun:

• government of the Qing dynasty; Qing government

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do an act of benevolence at the sacrifice of oneself

noun:

• certificate of merit

noun:

• Izanagi economic boom (1965-70) of Japan

noun:

• angle of fire

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• fourth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and south-east) ➜ 九星

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

noun / ~の noun:

• suspicion of having (or to be making) nuclear weapons

noun:

• sense of accomplishment