expression:

• a wholesome household can not be disturbed from the outside; a house divided against itself cannot stand; a firm fence keeps the dogs out [literal] - proverb

temporal noun:

• one o'clock

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• once; at one time; formerly; before

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily - in weather forecasts, indicates that a given condition will hold for less than one-quarter of the forecast period

noun:

• a time; one time; once ➜ 一時に

noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

noun:

• honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites

suffix noun:

• from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
• aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above

noun:

• first volume (e.g. book) ➜ 下【げ】・上巻

noun / prefix:

• superior quality; best; top; high class
• going up
• governmental; imperial
• presenting; showing

prefix:

• ana- (medical, biol.)

noun:

• hanger-on; dependent
• someone who is received coldly
• third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate) - familiar language

noun:

• first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move
• forestalling; (seizing the) initiative ➜ 後手

expression:

• (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; badgers of the same hole [literal] - idiom

expression:

• towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic) ➜ 向ける

expression / noun:

• the crucial moment; the moment of truth; do-or-die situation; crucial juncture; crucial stage

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) ➜ 文展【ぶんてん】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

noun:

• little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept-secret place; hole-in-the-wall

noun:

• northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

noun:

• six-year secondary school (type of school introduced in the 1998 revision of the Japanese School Education Law)

noun:

• tasks; things to do; errand; business (to take care of); affairs; engagement

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to print
• to color or pattern fabric using a wooden mold

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stop by; to drop in for a short visit

noun / ~する noun:

• rising to action; standing up against; jumping to one's feet

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• discourtesy; impoliteness ➜ 無礼

expression:

• excuse me; goodbye ➜ 失礼します

~する noun:

• to leave
• to be rude ➜ 無礼

godan ~る verb:

• to have a cramp (spasm, convulsion, twitch); to become stiff