~の noun / noun:

• off tempo; out of tune - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• being off the mark; wrong guess; miscalculation - archaism

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】

expression / adjective:

• well-versed (in); profoundly knowledgeable (about); high in the attainment (of) - usu. as ”～に造詣が深い

expression:

• let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb

expression:

• from the start; from the beginning; from the outset

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly
• to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language

noun:

• green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
• meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis) ［あおやぎ］ ➜ バカ貝

noun:

• ninja (persons in feudal Japan who used ninjutsu for the purposes of espionage, assassination, sabotage, etc.) ➜ 忍術

noun:

• 1000 ryou (an old Japanese coin)
• Sarcandra glabra (species of flowering shrub in the family Chloranthaceae) - usu. センリョウ

noun:

• small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands

noun:

• successive generations
• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - abbreviation ➜ 譜代大名

noun:

• large pink (Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus) - four character idiom ➜ 撫子
• woman who displays the feminine virtues of old Japan

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:

• polish; elaboration; repeatedly working over one's writing; being very scrupulous in the choice of diction - four character idiom

noun:

• (in China) 7th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G sharp) ➜ 十二律・鳧鐘
• fifth lunar month

noun:

• (in China) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G) ➜ 十二律・双調
• fourth lunar month

noun:

• (in China) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・平調
• first lunar month

noun:

• second note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) (in China) ➜ 十二律・断吟
• twelfth lunar month

noun:

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

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

noun:

• blessing of heaven; hand in which the dealer goes out on their initial deal - Mahjong term - From Chinese