noun:

• broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
• plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia) ➜ 箒草
• liquor; alcohol; sake

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make an appearance; to show up

noun:

• (personal) appearance; (personal) grooming
• essential skill; required knowledge

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold (the opponent) in the arms and carry him out of the ring

noun / ~の noun:

• this world; the present life (in contrast to the land of the dead)

noun:

• re; 2nd note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

unclassified:

• le; the - From French

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

temporal noun:

• now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

noun:

• hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese - From Portuguese "calção" ➜ 袴

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun:

• the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界

noun:

• blindness in one eye; having one eye much bigger than the other; someone blind in one eye; someone with one eye much bigger than the other - sensitive

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• book of poetry
• The Classic of Poetry and The Classic of History (Chinese texts)

noun:

• group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages)
• group of words

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun:

• joint and several liability; each individual being responsible for the payment of his share of the purchase price, expense, etc. - four character idiom

noun:

• the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election; children of (Junichiro) Koizumi [literal] - colloquialism ➜ ８３会【はちさんかい】

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教