noun:

• 57th of the sexagenary cycle

noun:

• certification of information recorded on foreign resident registration file

noun:

• history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, written in 1743-1745
• Ryukyu islands - alt. name

noun / ~の noun:

• head of an organizational section; head of an organisational section

noun:

• period of rapid growth

noun:

• woman's level of motivation in fashion, makeup, taste in clothes, etc.; femininity - colloquialism

noun:

• Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

noun:

• bridge of a koto

noun:

• Orders of the Precious Crown; Orders of the Sacred Crown

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to take advantage of (someone's) weakness

noun:

• rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)

noun:

• the "ha" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ha, hi, fu, he, ho)

noun:

• street of well-known stores

expression:

• search thoroughly for something lost before you suspect someone of stealing it; be on sure ground before you accuse somebody - proverb

noun:

• eighteenth day of the month
• eighteen days

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 参院予算委員会

noun:

• rear part of the tongue

noun:

• Supreme Court of Judicature (Scotland); High Court (England); Parlement (France)

expression / pre-noun adjectival:

• that sort of; like that ➜ ああいう

noun:

• sign of life; human presence - often 人気(が,の)ない - deserted
• humanity; humaneness

noun:

• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

noun:

• period of validity

expression / noun:

• ten disciples of Confucius

noun:

• land of the gods; Japan

noun:

• place of confinement