expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• parting of the ways; the way to hades; one's way after the parting

noun:

• the 48 basic techniques - four character idiom - Sumo term
• every trick in the book
• the 48 basic sexual positions - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the tape (at the finishing line); to breast the tape

noun:

• two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State & the Dept. of Worship) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• middle of the road; on the road
• on the way (to one's destination)

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun / ~する noun:

• abortion ➜ 妊娠中絶

~する noun:

• to be interrupted; to be discontinued; to be suspended; to fall into abeyance

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to change into; to be transformed; to be transfigured; to transform; to alter; to convert

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to change into; to be transformed; to be transfigured; to transform; to alter; to convert

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to charge; to lunge; to rush
• to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone)
• to collide with; to bump into

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be forward; to stick one's nose into; to meddle; to be intrusive
• to jut out; to protude; to overhang

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; the true charm
• flavour of ghee; "delicious taste" [figurative] ➜ 醍醐
• Buddha's gracious teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• the Emperor; His Majesty - honorific language
• the government; the authorities - honorific language
• proprietress; hostess; landlady; mistress - also written 女将 ➜ 女将
• your wife; his wife - also written 御内儀 or 内儀 - honorific language - archaism
• (one's) master; lord - honorific language - archaism

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes - idiom ➜ 目からウロコの落ちる

noun:

• method of patterning traditional Japanese clothing (the tops of all of patterns being pointed at the highest part of the shoulder)

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

~と adverb / adverb:

• whistling (of the wind); blowing
• fluttering (in the wind); waving; flapping; flying
• tottering; staggering
• aimlessly; wandering about; roaming
• aloof from the world; easygoing; transcendental; detached

noun:

• arbor; arbour; bower; pavilion

suffix:

• suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers ［てい］
• suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant ［てい］

adverb / ~と adverb:

• walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel) - onomatopoeia
• lots of coins or jewels - onomatopoeia
• cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening

noun:

• abandonment of the status quo; destroying the status quo; overthrowing the present situation - four character idiom