noun:

• small festival held the night before a full festival ➜ 本祭り

noun:

• Department of Defense (USA); the Pentagon; (British) Ministry of Defence

noun:

• state of society; social conditions; order of the world

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious

adverb / noun:

• occasionally; at times; the season; from time to time

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hit the bull's-eye; to go as expected

noun:

• copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy

adverb:

• in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash

noun / ~の noun:

• dissidents; people who are against the Establishment; anti-Establishment groups

noun:

• cowrie (esp. the chocolate cowrie, Mauritia mauritiana); cowry ➜ 宝貝・八丈宝貝

noun:

• pea crab (any crab of the family Pinnotheridae)

noun / ~の noun:

• dullness (esp. of the skin); lack of luster; dirt; soil; contamination

noun:

• stinky bug (esp. the bombardier beetle); stink bug

noun:

• four divine beasts; guardian deities of the four cardinal points

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take and spit the water prior to a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• type of commission system in the book industry in Japan

noun:

• movie version (based on TV series, anime, etc.); the movie

godan ~つ verb:

• to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet

noun:

• being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve - four character idiom

noun:

• everyday occurrence; commonplace of life; nothing out of the ordinary - four character idiom

noun:

• horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• being as free as the air; active without any restraint - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• tour round the country (Japan) (visiting from province to province) - four character idiom

noun:

• sense of decorum; attention to the common civilities of life - four character idiom