noun:

• exhibition and sale (of paintings); display with the exhibits on sale

noun:

• Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas - Buddhism term ➜ 胎蔵界曼荼羅【たいぞうかいまんだら】・金剛界曼荼羅【こんごうかいまんだら】

noun:

• Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas - Buddhism term ➜ 両界曼荼羅【りょうかいまんだら】

noun:

• lace; lacing braid - From Portuguese "mogol"
• chenille yarn
• tinsel
• pipe cleaner; fibre, paper, etc. twisted between a pair of wires

noun:

• eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii) ➜ 強飯・姫飯
• first intercourse of the New Year
• loss of virginity; loss of maidenhead - slang

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

noun:

• original and copy (of a document)
• principal and vice; chief and vice-chief

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument
• someone's ability to play the shamisen

noun:

• hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk) ➜ 茶筅

noun:

• summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month) - Buddhism term

expression:

• the end of the line; the end of the road; curtains

noun:

• snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 月雪花【つきゆきはな】

expression / noun:

• shape of the "dai" kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served) ➜ 後座【ござ】

noun:

• magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

noun:

• (one of) the eight earliest and most prestigious high schools (Meiji period) - From English "number school"

noun:

• imperial palace; person living in the imperial palace (esp. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 内裏
• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress - polite language ➜ 内裏雛

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic) / transitive:

• to talk together - archaism
• to be close; to be intimate; to form an intimate relationship (between a man and a woman) - archaism
• to win someone over - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

noun:

• ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred) ➜ 浮遊霊

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be troublesome; to require the aid and labour of others