acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting; acceptance
hand; arm; handwriting; penmanship; 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand)
chief; main; principal; major
(editorial) supervision; general editorship; supervising director
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
bureau; department; office (e.g. post, telephone); broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio); affair; situation
self denial; self control
roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)
diplomatic message sent by a head of state; sovereign letter; book written in Japanese (as opposed to Chinese, etc.); Japanese book; national literature (of Japan)
Kyougoku Natsuhiko (1963-)
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
research division; research club (e.g. at school, university)
publishing (of books, magazines, etc.)
mysterious and unconfirmed animals (e.g. chupacabra, etc.)
oak; daimyo oak; Japanese emperor oak; Quercus dentata
Mainichi Newspapers Co. Ltd (Japanese newspaper company)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
Kadokawa Shoten (publisher)
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
bizarre; strange; weird; grotesque
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; (arch.) that's right
definitive piece; definitive (authoritative) edition; last word