noun:

• influential family; the man in power

noun:

• supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to the Earth

noun:

• winter greeting card; inquiring after someone's health in the cold season - four character idiom

noun:

• soryo system; organization of regional landholding families based on divided inheritance under the leadership of a main heir, usu. the eldest son (Kamakura period)

noun:

• ridgepole-raising; setting up of the framework of a house

expression / ~の noun:

• domestic and foreign; inside and outside the country

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• fast asleep; dead to the world

noun:

• Web text; text from the Web - IT term

noun:

• vulgar ears; attention of the masses

noun:

• dressed carcass; meat on the bone

noun:

• Ebenaceae; family of flowering plants including the ebony

expression:

• whatever misfortune happens; even if spears fall out of the sky [literal] ➜ 雨が降ろうが槍が降ろうが【あめがふろうがやりがふろうが】

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• one house; the same house
• detached house

noun / ~する noun:

• paying cash-in-hand; paying under the table - colloquialism

noun:

• Rodentia; order comprising the rodents

expression:

• good wine makes good blood; sake is the best of all medicines - proverb

noun:

• tall building; the cabinet

expression:

• dim-witted; slow to catch on

expression:

• meanwhile; in the meantime ➜ 話変わって【はなしかわって】

expression:

• things that do not exist; fur on turtles, horns on rabbits [literal] - four character idiom - idiom

expression:

• this side; in the forefront

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

noun:

• soldier dispatched by a god; soldier under the protection of the gods

expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good