expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

noun:

• the last day of the year; New Year's Eve ➜ 大晦日

noun:

• Lord Chancellor

noun:

• large saw; framed pit saw

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun:

• courtier

noun:

• thick rope
• fundamental principles; outline; general features

noun:

• Corbicula japonica (species of basket clam)

noun:

• great success; roaring business

~の noun:

• busy; packed-out

noun:

• macrospore

noun:

• Large-scale Retail Stores Law - abbreviation ➜ 大規模小売店舗立地法【だいきぼこうりてんぽりっちほう】

noun:

• Japanese poem; waka; tanka ➜ 唐歌

noun:

• great circle route

noun:

• very loud voice

noun:

• Japanese text; sentence in Japanese - archaism ➜ 和文

noun:

• soy flour

noun:

• Sun Goddess; Amaterasu Oomikami ➜ 天照大神

noun:

• outrageous lie; outright lie

noun / ~する noun:

• large profit; a killing

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

noun:

• senior proprietress (hostess) of a Japanese inn or restaurant

noun:

• position at the imperial court in ancient China - abbreviation ➜ 内閣大学士

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to get scolded severely ➜ お目玉を食らう

noun:

• graduate school entrance examination ➜ 院試

noun:

• transcontinental railroad