expression / ichidan verb:

• to sheathe one's sword; to lay down arms; to bury the hatchet

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw closed the curtain (of a theatre, etc.); "to come to an end" [figurative] ➜ 幕を閉じる

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live together; to be close friends; to eat out of the same pot [literal] - idiom

noun:

• pacifist constitution (often applied to the Japanese constitution); constitution which outlaws use of arms ➜ 日本国憲法

noun:

• in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

noun:

• keen eyesight; the eyesight of Lilou (character with superior eyesight in ancient Chinese folklore) [literal] - archaism - idiom

expression:

• year after year; as the years go by; with each passing year

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

noun:

• Hakke Shinto (Shinto tradition transmitted by the House of Hakuo Shirakawa); Hakuke Shinto

noun / ~する noun:

• settlement (financial); squaring accounts; clearing debts
• liquidation
• ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)

noun / ~する noun:

• notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration)
• being well versed (in something) ➜ 精通

noun:

• top star (esp. male lead role in the all-female Takarazuka musical theater troupe); major celebrity

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); outriding
• harbinger; herald; precursor; forerunner; foretoken
• anticipation

proper noun:

• Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935) ➜ 忠犬ハチ公【ちゅうけんハチこう】

noun:

• kalpa (eon, aeon) ［こう・ごう］ - Buddhism term
• ko (in go); position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones - usu. コウ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• recipient; receiver; acceptor; taker
• skilled practitioner (of judo, sumo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• person who picks up the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 読み手

noun:

• one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it - four character idiom

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 大禍時

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun:

• bai ze (mythical chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)

noun:

• universal life force (the source of animation for all things)
• free spirit (i.e. a mindset unencumbered with worldly concerns)

counter:

• counter for the hito-futa-mi counting system (forming hitotsu, futatsu, mitsu, and misoji, yasoji, etc.)

noun:

• nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris, species of catshark in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• black-barred surgeonfish (Acanthurus polyzona, species of tang known only from Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands)

noun:

• secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards - from ジャズ read backwards - Linguistics term