noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

expression:

• putting the cart before the horse; putting the diapers on before (the baby) is born [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

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

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• abandonment of the status quo; destroying the status quo; overthrowing the present situation - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to abide (by the rules); to keep to the regulations Antonym: 規則を破る

noun:

• musical note; note symbol
• phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning) ➜ 意符

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; people may be offended (or not) by the way you speak - proverb

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

expression:

• when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked [literal]

noun:

• iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character) ➜ 踊り字

noun / adverbial noun:

• utmost limits; to the finish; to the (bitter) end; to the hilt; down to the bedrock - four character idiom

expression:

• the clothes do not make the man; the cowl does not make the monk - proverb

expression:

• the busier you are, the better you work - proverb
• the more, the better - proverb

noun:

• (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom

noun:

• standing on the balls of the feet; unsteady step
• being unsettled; being restless; being ready to flee
• high volatility (in the market); severe fluctuation - Finance term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• Actinopterygii (class of the ray-finned fishes comprising nearly 95% of the 25,000 species of fish)

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)