noun:

• radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast Aug. 15, 1945) ➜ ポツダム宣言

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to reach the summit (e.g. of a mountain)
• to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

noun:

• the facts; the truth; the true state of affairs

adverbial noun:

• in truth; in fact; in reality; actually

noun:

• the five brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); the five light cards; the five hikari cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• hair at the temples; hair at the sides of the head

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hit the mark; to hit the nail on the head

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

noun:

• The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching ➜ 五経

proper noun:

• Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible); Letter to the Hebrews; Hebrews ➜ ヘブライ人への手紙

noun:

• night where one waits for someone who is supposed to come - archaism
• night of the 14th day of the eight month of the lunar calendar - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run
• to travel (movement of vehicles); to drive; to flow (e.g. energy)
• to hurry to
• to retreat (from battle); to take flight
• to run away from home - esp. 奔る
• to elope
• to tend heavily toward - esp. 趨る
• to flash; to streak; to shoot through (e.g. pain)

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

noun:

• 43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)

noun:

• goodwill; intangible assets (part of the acquisition price of a business paid for the name and reputation of the company rather than tangible assets)

expression:

• as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain - four character idiom

expression:

• let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb