expression / noun:

• sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current

noun:

• var. of folksong; var. of koto or shamisen music; medley of (Japanese) songs

noun:

• child born of older parents ➜ 年寄りっ子
• child raised by grandparents; child spoiled by doting grandparents ➜ 年寄りっ子

noun:

• establishing the identity of a defendant

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• feel of a brush or pen

noun:

• crime of negligence; careless offense; careless offence

noun / ~する noun:

• having an audience with someone of very high social standing (e.g. the emperor) - humble language

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:

• whole district of Kanto

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution

noun:

• spirit of study (inquiry, enquiry); (having) an inquiring mind

noun:

• faculty of law and literature

noun:

• sense of community

noun:

• type of long jacket worn by bousouzoku biker gang members, etc. - abbreviation ➜ 暴走族・特攻服

noun:

• resolution authorizing the use of force

noun:

• style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances - abbreviation ➜ 常磐津節

noun:

• prohibition of speaking; imposition of silence; tiny morsel

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• purpose of a visit

noun:

• folding bench at the front of traditional townhouses ➜ 町家【まちや】

noun:

• sovereignty of the people

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun:

• letter of resignation; request for retirement

noun:

• woman of lowly birth