noun:

• tip of a scabbard

adverb:

• first of all; in the first place

noun:

• worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism - four character idiom

noun:

• (in China) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp) ➜ 十二律・上無
• tenth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters - four character idiom

noun:

• purification to cleanse one of sin - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• sense of being the chosen people - four character idiom

noun:

• fruit near end of the vine; weak-looking fellow

noun:

• list of the richest people; billionaires list

noun:

• bones supporting the fins of a fish

noun:

• var. of traditional Japanese paper ➜ 奉書紙

noun / ~する noun:

• extraction of square root

noun:

• group (gang) of naughty (mischievous) boys - four character idiom

noun:

• photo booth that prints out cards and stickers of the resulting photograph, which are then traded among friends - abbreviation - From English "print club"

noun:

• variety of soba (buckwheat noodles)

expression:

• It's a piece of cake; It's a simple task; It's a cinch ➜ 御茶の子【おちゃのこ】

noun:

• as a matter of social courtesy

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits) - obscure term ➜ 鶺鴒
• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) ➜ 時鳥

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry

noun:

• sense of urgency; feeling of high tension

noun:

• type of picture book popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• essence of mint

noun:

• expansion of armaments ➜ 軍備拡張

noun:

• Straits of Taiwan

noun:

• state of mind; (one's) mental state