noun:

• type of fast military boat used from the Warring states period until the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• ceremony where the Emperor would inspect the records of attendance and absence of officials - archaism

noun:

• tragus (small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear); tragi; antilobium

noun:

• the NPO Law (1998); Law Concerning the Promotion of Specific Non-Profit Organization Activities ➜ 特定非営利活動促進法

noun:

• twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

noun:

• confidential report to the ruler of the country of astronomical events and their astrological interpretation - archaism

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮寺

noun:

• arranging beforehand to tell the same story; getting the stories straight; coordinating one's stories ➜ 口裏を合わせる

noun:

• the "na" column of the Japanese syllabary table (na, ni, nu, ne, no)

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

expression:

• woman who has lost a man's affection or interest (as does a fan when summer turns to autumn)

noun:

• umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land

noun:

• before the gate; in front of the gate

noun:

• the entire strength; all hands; all the members

noun:

• sensitivity to the times; sense of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• inside-the-park home run; inside-the-parker - Baseball term - From English "running home run"

noun:

• Acts of the Apostles (book of the Bible)

noun:

• in (the proper) order; in (the correct) sequence

adverb:

• along the east coast; along the eastern seashore

adverb:

• within the year; before the year is out

adverb:

• throughout the year; all the year round; always - four character idiom