expression / adverb:

• for a long time

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be embarrassed for a reply ➜ 返答に窮する

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

noun / ~する noun:

• (creating) a cover-up - four character idiom

noun:

• incumbent member (or candidate) unaffiliated with a party

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun:

• historic customary reading of a kanji word

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

noun:

• three monastic positions with management roles at a temple - Buddhism term

noun:

• place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

noun:

• opening of a new theater (theatre)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop in the middle of a sentence

noun:

• search for a husband for one's daughter

adjective:

• not give a damn; take no notice of

noun / ~の noun:

• lacking a portfolio (of a minister of state, etc.)

noun:

• close-up of a face

noun:

• making a living in the red-light district - four character idiom

noun:

• explanation of a kanji

noun:

• root of a moso bamboo ➜ 孟宗竹

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

expression / ichidan verb:

• to chant a sutra

noun:

• (while) holding a post or being in office

noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

noun:

• simplified form of a kanji

noun:

• across a river