expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun:

• Oversight Department of the Left (overseeing the Ministries of Central Affairs, Ceremonies, Civil Administration & Popular Affairs) ➜ 弁官

noun:

• Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (7th of January); one of the 5 seasonal festivals ➜ 五節句

noun:

• New Year (esp. first three days)
• the first month of the year; January

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term

noun:

• spirit of a deceased person - honorific language
• the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit ［みたま］ - honorific language ➜ 聖霊

noun:

• blue sky
• skyrocketing (of prices); having no limit; the sky being the limit - idiom

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

noun:

• Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth); earthshine

noun:

• the Six Forms of Avalokitesvara (one for each of the six realms) ➜ 六道

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion - proverb

noun:

• dismissal of class (at the end of the day) ➜ 放課後
• recess (at school); break - Nagoya dialect

noun:

• shellfish baked in the shell
• abalone, scallops, etc. simmered in the shell

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - obscure term - Astronomy term ➜ 天狼星・シリウス

noun:

• waning gibbous moon; moon of the 19th day of the lunar month ➜ 臥待月

noun:

• within the prefecture (of Kyoto or Osaka)
• within the town limits of Edo - archaism ➜ 御府内

noun:

• mass; setting of the ordinary of the mass (Kyrie, Credo, etc.) - Music term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scrape out; to rake out (e.g. ashes); to bail out (e.g. water)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to leave one's footprints; to leave one's mark on; to leave a message (behind)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to distance oneself (from); to keep (something or someone) at a distance; to maintain a distance (from)

noun:

• samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) ［さんまい］ - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

suffix noun:

• being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content - usu. ざんまい
• prone to; apt to - usu. ざんまい

noun:

• lower reaches (of a river) Antonym: 上【かみ】
• bottom; lower part
• lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses
• end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan)

~の noun:

• dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of