城

Organization name

Meijō University (abbr)

Great Wall of China

head of a household; business owner; proudly independent person

Historical term

feudal lord; daimyo

fortified city; walled city

(possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance)

Historical term

establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)

Common noun

impregnable castle (walls)

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable

strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)

Idiomatic expression

capitulation; surrender; treaty signed under coercion

an impregnable fortress; an unassailable territory

woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale

Organization name

Miyagi University of Education

feeling (looking) lone and helpless; helplessness of those in reduced circumstances

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986 animated film); Castle in the Sky

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Howl's Moving Castle (2004 animated film)

woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale

feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances

buying the services of a prostitute

Organization name

Josai International University

marbled sole (Pleuronectes yokohamae)

Proverb

talk is cheap; it's easier to say than to do; building Osaka Castle by talking

Thunberg's lespedeza (Lespedeza thunbergii)

woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale

Great Wall of Sand (Chinese land reclamation project in the Spratly Islands)

company town; town whose economy is largely dependent on one company