noun:

• pigtail; ponytail; hair (hanging down the back)

expression:

• what the hell are you saying? - Kansai dialect

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cut and dry (in the sun)

noun:

• abandoning old people, usu. in the mountains

noun:

• Buddhist sect originating in the seventh century

noun:

• the form and its shadow; things inseparable

noun:

• shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family

noun:

• melt-in-the-mouth feeling

adverb:

• by today; before the day is over

noun:

• the three powers: heaven, earth and man

noun:

• the three calamities: fire, flood and storm

noun:

• recruit (former rank in the JSDF) - obsolete term

expression:

• at first; in the beginning; originally

noun:

• people close to the head man

noun:

• finger marks; dirt from the hands

noun:

• double marriage (in the same family); intermarriage

noun:

• all things in nature; the whole creation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• watering at the mouth; covetousness

noun:

• round-the-world trip; circumnavigation; globe-trotting

noun / ~する noun:

• fighting to the death (with swords) - sensitive

expression / adverbial noun:

• the other day; a few days ago

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• essentially the same with only minor differences - four character idiom

noun:

• around-the-clock; (working) day and night - four character idiom

noun:

• return to the divine through spiritual quietude

noun:

• readers' column; letters to the editor section