noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

adverb:

• earnestly; intently; determinedly; by all means - archaism
• ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?") - archaism ➜ 一体全体【いったいぜんたい】

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to grab someone by the collar; to grab someone by the lapels

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun:

• allotment of rice paddies for cultivation during the cultivator's lifetime (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.

noun:

• locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• in the face of the enemy; before the enemy

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

~の noun / noun:

• along the road; at the side of the road

noun:

• problems caused by the elderly (esp. gerontocracy, and elderly people's control over the young)

noun:

• pillow money; tip left by the pillow for the room maid ➜ 枕銭

noun:

• human (in Ainu); one's fellow man; kin; comrade - From Ainu
• self-referential term used by the Ainu about their people ➜ アイヌ

noun:

• chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to attend a meeting; to have the honor of being present at a meeting; to soil the lowest seat by one's presence [literal] - humble language

expression:

• words can lead to disaster; the tongue is the root of calamities; the more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it - proverb

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be meant for each other (of a man and woman); to be connected through fate; to be destined to marry (each other); to be tied by the red string (of fate) [literal] - idiom ➜ 赤い糸

noun:

• truths of the cessation of suffering and of the way to the cessation of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 道諦・滅諦

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

noun:

• red suited tile that doubles the score of any hand (usu. a five of each suit) - Mahjong term ➜ ドラ

expression / adverb:

• in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient