noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

noun:

• nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); foreigner of Japanese parentage

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• the Second (king, etc. of the same name); second generation; junior

noun:

• son - colloquialism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom

noun:

• dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) ➜ 偈

noun:

• adipocere; grave wax; greying of the body fats of a corpse which rests in a moist but airless place (graying)

noun:

• government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation

noun:

• bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness - Buddhism term

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• (the products of) culture or civilization (civilisation)

noun:

• fragment; one of the group or party

noun:

• the intensity or illuminating power of light

~の noun:

• outside the control or jurisdiction (of); extra-

noun:

• respecting the intentions or wishes of someone

noun:

• group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages)
• group of words

noun:

• one or the same pot; eating or living together

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

noun:

• broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
• plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia) ➜ 箒草
• liquor; alcohol; sake

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn

noun / ~する noun:

• government service; entering government service
• (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve ➜ 浪人