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(archaic) India

foreign or exotic / overly spicy or hot

Kyūjitai form of 転注: (linguistics) figurative extension of meaning

起承転結: structure of a narrative or poem

a carrying pole, a yoke as used by people for carrying things

observatory (place where celestial bodies are observed)

kaiten sushi, conveyor belt sushi (sushi served on a sushi train)

arduous is the race against time as one grows old. (literally "as the sun goes down, the road remains a long one.")

(linguistics) a specific historical consonantal shift of the Japanese language during the Heian Period, wherein many word-medial /f/ sounds changed to /w/ sounds