expression / godan ~つ verb:

• time passes; the days and months go by; the months roll on

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• China and Japan
• the middle day
• the equinoctial day

godan ~つ verb:

• to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the marketplace [literal] - idiom

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)

noun:

• the nature of plants to grow down and root; geotropism

noun:

• luck, steadfastness and patience (the three keys to achieving success)

noun:

• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)

expression:

• act with restraint and conform to the ways of etiquette - archaism ➜ 克己復礼

noun:

• journeying to Song China during the Heian and Kamakura periods - archaism

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions - abbreviation ➜ カメラ小僧

noun:

• Northern Di people; northern barbarians; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non- ethnic Chinese to the north - archaism - derogatory term

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• getting on and off; embarking and disembarking

noun:

• Xirong; Rong; inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE); barbarians to the west [literal]

noun:

• separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period) - four character idiom ➜ 神仏習合

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto) ➜ 大阪の食い倒れ・着倒れ

noun:

• convenient clothes; ordinary clothes

noun:

• loose clothes; comfortable clothes

noun:

• simple clothes; humble clothes

noun:

• party clothes; evening clothes