civilization ②Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)

school festival

culture ②Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

writing ②sentence

document ②document addressed to someone

thesis

anthology

writing (an essay, prose, etc.) ②formal writing with little real meaning

civil official

literature

correspondence

cryptogram

ancient civilization

literature

literature ②the arts

Chinese language (written) ②Chinese literature

literary club (e.g. at school)

humanities, social sciences, and fine arts

content of a letter

stationery

complaint ②phrase

spell

order (for an item) ②request

order

cross

astronomical observatory

straight line

astronomy

historical document ②pre-Meiji era document addressed to someone in particular

tiny amount of money ②one letter ③one mon (unit of currency)

pattern

paltry amount of money ②three one-mon coins

astronomer

bond

Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

undisputedly

Dead Sea scrolls

penniless

straight

wording (esp. of written text) ②classical Chinese literary style

letter (of alphabet) ②writing

literally ②literal

uppercase letter ②large character ③the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big" ④huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year

first letter of a word ②initials (of one's name)

garlic (Allium sativum)

ancient script

two characters ②garlic chives (Allium tuberosum)

dial (on timepiece, meter, etc.) ②letter board (e.g. on typewriter, writing aide for the disabled, etc.)

emoji ②pictorial symbol ③ASCII art

squid

horizontal script (esp. of a European language) ②European language

character string

number of characters

hieroglyph

emoticon

four-character compound word (usu. idiomatic)

four characters

five characters ②five-syllable verse of a waka, haiku, renga, etc. ③first five syllables of a waka, haiku, renga, etc.

mirror writing

lowercase letter ②small letter

letter

Hifumi (script)

seventh month of the lunar calendar

love letter

letter affixed to an arrow

(love) letter tossed into a home

knotted letter

(a) letter

love-letter

love-letter

letter dropped in the road

love-letter

Japanese text

ancient clan record (incl. their origins, their achievements, etc.)

language used when writing letters

seventh lunar month

scented insert (to enclose with a letter)

circular (document)

letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

person of letters

pattern

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

to make a false accusation

words betray one's character

box for letters and papers ②box used to carry or deliver letters

Japanese-style writing desk

to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only