noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are ➜ 浮世

noun:

• fried finely minced daikon, great burdock, carrot and shiitake mushrooms wrapped with crumbled tofu in dried beancurd and deep-fried
• Japanese tofu and vegetable chowder - abbreviation ➜ 巻繊汁
• black soybean sprouts fried in sesame seed oil wrapped in dried beancurd and stewed - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun / ~する noun:

• practice (in the field); training (esp. practical and hands-on); practical exercise; drill

adverb:

• from the bottom of one's heart; heart and soul; by nature

noun:

• head of a pipe, incl. the bowl and stem attachment
• neck; head - colloquialism

noun:

• for ever and ever; (through) eternity; countless ages; till the end of time - four character idiom

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry

noun:

• guardian deity of the three jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• three-person saddle

noun:

• agency (government department between a ministry and a bureau under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• Amitabha triad; image of Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta - Buddhism term

noun:

• Bhaishajyaguru triad; image of Bhaishajyaguru Buddha flanked by the Bodhisattvas Suryaprabha and Candraprabha - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• rising and going to bed; daily life

adverb:

• all the time; constantly; whether awake or asleep

expression / adverb:

• after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably

noun:

• diseases specified by the Japanese government as being worrisome, having no known treatment and of unknown causes

noun:

• contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

noun:

• Great Interregnum (gap between Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rule of the Holy Roman Empire, approx. 1254-1273 CE)

noun:

• round plaque carrying the image of a Buddha (usually hammered from behind) used in temples and shrines

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇汁

noun:

• stew prepared from ingredients contributed by members of a party, and eaten in the dark for fun ➜ 闇鍋

noun:

• atman; one's true self, which transcends death and is part of the universal Brahman (in Hinduism) - From Sanskrit "ātman" ➜ ブラフマン

noun:

• ABCD line; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940