noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

godan ~す verb:

• to drink someone down; to drink someone under the table

noun:

• night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

expression:

• The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven - four character idiom

expression:

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

noun:

• married couple; spouses; husband and wife; couple; pair

prefix noun:

• his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman) ［めおと］ ➜ 夫婦茶碗

noun:

• pile; pool; collection ➜ 溜まる
• gathering spot ➜ たまり場
• waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring - Sumo term
• liquid runoff from miso preparation
• tamari; variety of rich soy sauce (used for sashimi, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 溜まり醤油

noun:

• viewing all things as undifferentiated and equal; non-discriminative thought
• contemplation of the equality of all things from the standpoint of emptiness - Buddhism term

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:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

noun / ~の noun:

• first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)

noun:

• The Treaty of Amity and Commerce (July 29, 1858); Japan-US Friendship and Trade Treaty

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drink away one's money; to be a sot; to get wasted
• to drink someone under the table

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

noun:

• payment (system) for medical services

adverb:

• to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; stubbornly; persistently; consistently; to the utmost
• after all; it must be remembered; only; purely; simply

noun:

• allotted rice field (ritsuryo system); land distributed to all citizens from which yields were taxed by the government - archaism

noun:

• time; hour; moment - 刻 signifies a time of day; 秋 signifies an important time
• occasion; case ［時］
• chance; opportunity; season ［時］
• the times; the age; the day ［時］
• tense ［時］ - Linguistics term

noun:

• stepping out of the ring while carrying the opponent over the edge, not considered as a loss - Sumo term

noun:

• rite welcoming back the gods from Izumo Shrine (on the last day of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神送り

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.