journal; magazine; periodical
rope; cord; policeman's rope
(family) crest; coat of arms; pattern; figure
point in question (at issue)
elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology
NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation
archaeozoology; archeozoology; zooarchaeology
PC; personal computer; prestressed concrete; precast concrete; polycarbonate; political correctness; patrol car
chain reaction; nuclear chain reaction
literature; books (reference); document
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (publisher)
oak; daimyo oak; Japanese emperor oak; Quercus dentata
study; library; bookstore; bookshop; publishing company
guessing beforehand; conjecture in advance
point; essentials; gist; summary; fundamentals
inside the Imperial Palace; Department of the Imperial Household
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
symbolism (19th-century artistic movement)
study of antiquities; archeology
change; transition; vicissitudes
treatise or essay collection
Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute
doctor; PhD; exposition; fair; exhibition
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
new town (esp. planned satellite towns of Osaka Prefecture); new housing development
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
7 or 3 ratio; hair parted on one side
origin; beginning; source; rise
Kadokawa Shoten (publisher)
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
Kawachi (former province located in the east of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw
research society; study class (e.g. religious); seminar (e.g. presentation of research)