expression:

• in the early period (of something); at the beginning

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)

noun:

• Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

expression:

• (at the) last moment; (in the) nick of time

noun / ~する noun:

• stroll on the Ginza (i.e. the street)

noun:

• appreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

noun:

• depreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

noun:

• Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

noun:

• The Confederate States of America; The Confederacy; CSA

noun:

• writings about the gods
• Shinto scripture (e.g. the Kojiki)

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun:

• Dictyoptera (order of insects comprising the cockroaches and the mantids)

noun:

• ukyounodaibu (title under the ritsuryo system at the imperial court) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• tempura soba without the noodles

expression:

• missing the vital element

noun:

• mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year ➜ 若水

noun:

• prostitute of the second rank (below the taiyu) (Edo period) ➜ 太夫

noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• martial art based on the use of the iron fan ➜ 鉄扇

noun:

• washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)

noun:

• Geisteswissenschaften (i.e. the humanities, excluding the arts); mental science

noun:

• schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term