noun:

• public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗星

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• kanji in which one element suggests the meaning, the other the pronunciation

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb ➜ 隣の芝生は青い

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

expression:

• the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through; the long arm of the law doesn't reach everywhere; fishes big enough to eat boats aren't caught by the net [literal] - proverb

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace

noun / ~する noun:

• finishing (a race); running the whole distance; reaching the goal; staying the course

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• "before the spirit of the deceased" (written on the condolence-money envelope)

noun:

• restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend - four character idiom

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

noun:

• mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae) ➜ 銭葵・冬葵
• Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger) ➜ 二葉葵
• hollyhock - hollyhocks (genus Alcea) are part of the mallow family ➜ 立葵

noun:

• loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
• weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)

noun:

• Oriental longheaded locust (Acrida cinerea)
• click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae)
• obsequious person

noun:

• handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)
• 28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata) - colloquialism ➜ 二十八星瓢虫

noun / ~する noun:

• trot; half run; jog

noun:

• girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family

noun:

• lantern fish (any fish of family Myctophidae, esp. Watase's lanternfish, Diaphus watasei)