noun:

• proportion of forested land; proportion of land which is forested

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

expression:

• unawares; before one is aware - usu. as 冥々のうちに

noun:

• man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

noun:

• record highest (in number); most on record

noun:

• cynicism (of mankind); belief that human nature is fundamentally evil Antonym: 性善説

expression:

• people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season); it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of - obscure term

adjective:

• it cannot be helped; there is no way ➜ どうしようもない
• intolerable; unbearable - archaism

expression:

• the best flowers are the cherry blossoms, the best individuals are the samurai; as the cherry blossom is first among flowers, so is the samurai first among men - proverb

noun:

• Eusphyra; genus of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae whose sole member is the winghead shark

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

noun:

• world of tathata; "the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea" [figurative] - Buddhism term

noun:

• term of validity; period for which (a ticket) is available (valid)

noun:

• inferior; second-rate

expression:

• the student has become the master; blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo [literal] - proverb

noun:

• booby prize; prize for coming second-last ➜ ブービー賞

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

expression:

• to get a tiny share of the profits; to get a small share of what someone is enjoying

auxiliary:

• be; is - polite copula - archaism - polite language ➜ でございます

noun:

• epigeal stem; (normal) plant stem which is above the ground Antonym: 地下茎

noun:

• the Twenty-Two Shrines; the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period - Shintō term

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

expression:

• any port will do in a storm; when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune [literal] - proverb

expression:

• truth comes out of falsehood; many a true word is spoken in jest - proverb