noun:

• Yama, judge of the afterlife - abbreviation

noun:

• commemoration of the Buddha's birthday

expression:

• Her Majesty the Queen

noun / ~する noun:

• (exercising) the right to command

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

noun:

• inflammation of the renal pelvis

noun:

• the bottom of one's heart

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• 4th month of the lunar calendar ➜ 卯月

noun:

• coloured curtains hanging from the eaves of a Buddhist temple

noun:

• the five eyes (physical eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye and Buddha eye) - Buddhism term

noun:

• whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle ➜ 鏑矢
• start (e.g. of a movement); beginning; dawn

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - polite language ➜ ない・ます

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• the instant of birth (rebirth) - Buddhism term ➜ 四有

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

noun:

• benefitting the enemy; benefiting the enemy

noun:

• the mystery of creation

noun:

• return to the divine through spiritual quietude

noun:

• the Three Urban Prefectures

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be on the same wavelength; to think alike; to get along

noun:

• a row of training matches with the same opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• rice paddy with a thick layer of mud at the bottom; muddy rice field

noun:

• legendary military invasion of Korea in the 3rd century - obscure term