expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]

expression:

• slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping - proverb

noun:

• road-rail vehicle (vehicle which can travel both on railroad tracks and normal roads)

noun:

• shiku-kaisei city planning; city renewal that occurred in the Taisho and Meiji eras

noun:

• Delhi Dynasties; the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi dynasties of India ➜ デリースルタン朝

noun:

• thick roof shingle (1-3 cm thick, used for shrine buildings and noh stages) ➜ 栩葺き

noun:

• system that allows for the construction of highways and buildings in the same space

noun:

• skillful tanka poet ➜ 短歌
• official in charge of court poetry and music (ritsuryo period)
• poet

noun:

• roasted barley flour ➜ 麦こがし
• parched flour with various ingredients added and drunk in hot water

noun:

• the three kilesas that poison the heart of man (greed, hatred and delusion) - from 貪欲, 瞋恚 and 愚痴 - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩・三毒

noun:

• paleolagine lagomorph (Paleolaginae spp., incl. the Amami rabbit and the red rock hares)

noun:

• redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zillii, fish of the family Cichlidae found in Africa and Eurasia)

noun:

• miso mixed with minced great burdock, ginger, etc. and sweetened with sugar ➜ 味噌

noun:

• survivability; military term for the ability to withstand an attack and continue to function

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - From English "honey toast"

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down

noun:

• millions and millions

noun:

• again and again - four character idiom

~の noun / ~と adverb:

• higher and higher

noun:

• presentiment; premonition; hunch

~する noun:

• to have a premonition; to have a hunch - usu. 予感がする

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to dwell; to live; to remain
• to stay at; to take shelter at; to stop at; to lodge at
• to be pregnant
• to be part of a constellation
• to be a parasite (bugs, plants, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb