expression:

• the phenomenon that perfect reasoning fails if an idiot cannot understand it

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh ➜ 結跏趺坐【けっかふざ】

noun:

• traditional "Chinese" medicine for the stomach (usually prepared as small dark spherical pills)

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• public awareness (e.g. publicity and education campaigns aimed at improving the health, environment, etc.)

noun:

• person who pushily takes charge when cooking a hot pot at the table; hotpot boss [literal] - humorous term

noun:

• banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium, found in the northwest Pacific from southern Siberia to Taiwan)

noun:

• oval pad with two long strips tied underneath the obi to make it look fuller

noun:

• Oregon pine (another term for the common Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii) ➜ 米松

noun:

• taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)

noun:

• day in the near future when a major event is expected to occur - colloquialism - From English "X-day"

noun:

• Ming & Xing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war) ➜ 清楽・明楽

noun:

• framing (e.g. a picture)
• flaming; hostile and insulting interaction between persons over the internet

expression:

• in wine there is truth; being under the influence doesn't change our true character - proverb

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• longnose sawtail cat shark (Galeus longirostris, found in Amami-oshima, the Ogasawara and Izu islands)

noun:

• long, thin, roofless small boat (used as a river taxi during the Edo period)

noun:

• place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction - the へ is pronounced as え in this word - archaism ➜ 方違え・方塞がり

noun:

• outset; beginning; starting (things) ➜ 手始め
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun / ~する noun:

• preparing a rice field for planting by flooding it and tilling the soil

noun:

• laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period) ➜ 戦国大名

noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure ➜ 島田【しまだ】

noun:

• koto erected in one's yard as decoration during the Festival to Plead for Skills - archaism ➜ 乞巧奠

noun:

• literary style from the Heian era onwards, often mainly in kana and written by women