noun:

• street-level store; shop facing the street

noun:

• art lover; lover of the arts

suffix / noun:

• having experienced ~; having had the experience (of)

noun:

• Lemur; genus containing the ring-tailed lemur

noun:

• kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period - four character idiom

noun:

• Microscopium (constellation); the Microscope - Astronomy term

noun:

• lower brain; base of the brain

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

expression:

• all around; as far as the eye can see

noun:

• property rights; the right to own property

expression / adverb:

• as a matter of fact; to tell the truth ➜ 実を言えば

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Chimaera; genus of cartilaginous fish in the family Chimaeridae

expression:

• beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young - four character idiom

noun:

• Hades; the hereafter

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come to power; to assume the reins of government

noun:

• abacus; flat slab forming the top part of the capital of a column - Architecture term - From Greek

noun:

• government service; the bureaucracy

noun:

• ex post facto report; report after the event

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get distracted; to jump off the track

noun:

• Koya paper; Japanese paper produced in the vicinity of Mt. Koya ➜ 和紙

noun:

• out of focus; off the point

noun:

• imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War
• portrait or photo of a person of high rank - honorific language

noun:

• third; no. three

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a commission; to take a cut; to take a piece of the action; to take a kickback - colloquialism