noun:

• before; this side
• one's standpoint; one's appearance

pronoun:

• we
• you ➜ 手前【てめえ】

noun:

• fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed)
• location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra ［しゅらじょう］ ➜ 阿修羅【あしゅら】・帝釈天【たいしゃくてん】
• difficulties (in a love relationship) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism
• crunch time (esp. for cartoonists) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

noun:

• tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko ➜ 玳瑁
• tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle) - in Chinese medicine ➜ 鼈

adverbial noun / noun:

• to the end of time; to the crack of doom; for ever and ever

noun:

• first day of the month - archaism
• first ten days of the lunar month

expression / noun:

• rain falling on cherry blossoms; rain at the time of the blossoming of cherry trees

noun:

• temperature sensitivity; sensitivity of the demand for electricity to a change of the atmospheric temperature

adjectival noun:

• quiet and subdued in appearance; solemn; sad and depressed in manner; soft; gentle

noun / suffix noun:

• image; figure; statue; picture; portrait
• figure; form; shape; appearance
• image - Physics, Mathematics term

noun / ~する noun:

• failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
• falling short of the standard; not making the grade

noun:

• address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation ➜ 印地打ち

noun:

• whole family; all (members of) the family
• all over the house
• retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain; clan ［かちゅう］

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

noun / ~の noun:

• old person; elderly person; senior citizen

noun:

• trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay - Sumo term
• senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate)
• important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

noun:

• in the face of the enemy; before the enemy

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living