noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to win the favour of (favor); to be acknowledged (e.g. by a superior); to measure up to

noun:

• book of omens appended to Confucian Chinese classics

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a point of honor; to affect someone's good name

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to strip a person of all his or her clothes
• to steal someone blind - slang

noun:

• sense of humiliation

noun / ~する noun:

• return to base of soldiers, military aircraft or ships

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• nineteenth day of the month
• nineteen days
• fool; simpleton - slang - archaism

noun:

• First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange ➜ 東証一部

noun:

• top of a massive rock

noun:

• infirm of purpose and lacking in decision - four character idiom

noun:

• United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)

noun / ~する noun:

• collection of similar objects; classification by similarity

noun:

• Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)

noun:

• feeling of envy; jealous feeling

noun:

• geta supports made out of magnolia wood; geta with these supports

noun:

• all kinds of malicious gossip; heaping verbal abuse (on); cursing and swearing (words) - four character idiom

noun:

• fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute

expression / noun:

• restructuring of the financial industry; reorganization of financial systems

noun:

• owner of a hermitage; abbess; prioress; nun in charge of a Buddhist convent

expression:

• regardless of; irrespective of - often XXのいかんに...

noun:

• private constitutional drafts prepared before the adoption of the Meiji Constitution in 1889

noun:

• the empty nature of all things - Buddhism term