noun:

• the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess - four character idiom

noun:

• practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body

noun / ~する noun:

• raid; military attack by a mobile unit; hit-and-run attack; search-and-kill mission; search-and-destroy mission; military action without a predetermined target; attacking the enemy or assisting allies as the opportunity arises

noun:

• shortstop; short - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 遊撃手

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth

~する noun:

• blowing air into a dive mask through the nose to clear out the water or equalize the pressure - From English "mask blow" ➜ マスククリア

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

noun / ~する noun:

• opportunism; waiting and seeing (how the wind blows); sitting on the fence; straddling

noun:

• battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) - obscure term ➜ 宋学

expression:

• one thing after another; out of the frying pan and into the fire - idiom

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings) - obscure term ➜ 上駒

noun:

• Panthalassa; vast global ocean during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic periods

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

expression:

• and so on; and so forth; et cetera; and such; and the like

noun / ~する noun:

• comment; criticism

noun:

• survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; the weak are meat the strong do eat [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

noun:

• closing recital that transfers the merit of the service to a buddha, a bodhisattva, or the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body) ➜ 半身不随

noun:

• at the risk of one's life
• dead body ➜ 生き身

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be able to possess (hold, get, etc.) ➜ 持つ
• to be well liked; to be popular; to be pampered (spoiled, doted upon, etc.); to be welcomed ➜ モテる
• to endure (the tests of time, the elements, etc.); to last

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• possessed; held
• rich; wealthy; affluent

expression / ichidan verb:

• to learn the ropes; to get the knack

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to hit the nail on the head; to guess exactly right

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to constitute the cause and effect

noun:

• outing to the fields and mountains