noun:

• Nihon Kouki (third of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• Montoku Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) - abbreviation ➜ 日本文徳天皇実録

noun:

• Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三代実録

noun:

• the five basic sentence structures (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC) - Linguistics term

noun:

• person who turns up at the right moment to help

noun:

• Plectranthus inflexus (species of plant in the mint family)

noun:

• sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen - colloquialism ➜ 三線

noun:

• Buddha's Birthday (8th day of the 4th lunar month)

noun:

• pre-Kumarajiva Chinese translation (i.e. before the 5th century) - Buddhism term

noun:

• the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death) - Buddhism term

noun:

• correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 阿弥陀仏・浄土宗

noun / ~する noun:

• universal illumination (esp. in Buddhism, by the dharma-body) ➜ 法身

noun:

• cere; skin at the base of a bird's beak

expression:

• fair words fill not the belly; food before romance - proverb

expression:

• no man can resist the lure of a woman - proverb

expression:

• don't trust strangers; always assume the worst (of people) - proverb

expression:

• We'll think about it when the time comes - idiom

expression / ~と adverb:

• without making waves; softly; (like) a willow in the wind [literal] - idiom

noun:

• sexual harassment from colleagues in the work environment

noun:

• Poaceae; Gramineae; family comprising the true grasses

noun:

• words read by the priest in a Shinto purification rite

noun:

• torture in which the victim is whipped with arrow shafts

noun:

• Bloody Sunday (esp. the Jan. 22, 1905 Saint Petersburg incident)

noun:

• type of picture book popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• name of ancient country located in the modern Fukuoka prefecture