gathering of talented people; group of geniuses
eyebrow pencil; blackened eyebrows; (metaphorically) distant mountain range
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. (name of a publishing company)
famous book; masterpiece (literary work)
diffusion; spread; popularization; promulgation; familiarization
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine
drawing room; study; publishing house; writing alcove
to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve
student (esp. a university student)
arts and sciences; liberal arts
name of a god; name of a shrine
night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm); book of informal essays
Chūōkōron (monthly literary magazine)
Ministry of Revenue (Tang-dynasty China)
home page; horsepower; HP; half-pipe (i.e. in snowboarding); HP (i.e. a 'hit point' in a role-playing game)
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
Mainichi Newspapers Co. Ltd (Japanese newspaper company)
the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
talk; recital; narration; topic
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
mountain stream; the water of a mountain stream
general (supervising) editor; editor-in-chief
Jin dynasty (of China; 265-420 CE); Chin dynasty
department (faculty) of literature
low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)
journal; magazine; periodical
(written) work; book; writings
scale (of fish, snake, etc.); serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
world history; international history
The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BCE)