noun:

• Ama no Ukihashi (the heavenly floating bridge; by which gods are said to descend from the heavens to the earth) - archaism

noun:

• 210th day (from the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar); the storm day - four character idiom

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the battle line; come back to the game (on to the field); a comeback - four character idiom

noun:

• the ten abominations (the ten most grievous offenses under traditional Chinese law) ➜ 八虐
• the ten evil deeds - Buddhism term ➜ 十善

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to sweep away the stresses of the day; to unwind; to refresh the mind

noun:

• articles of the deceased; article left by the deceased; things that belonged to the deceased

noun / ~の noun:

• outside the hall (or stadium, market, etc.); off the grounds; off the premises; off-track Antonym: 場内

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天

noun / ~する noun:

• intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha

noun:

• day of the boar in the month of the boar (the 10th month) ➜ 亥の子の祝

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• the defensive
• passive attitude; passivity; passiveness
• the passive; passive voice - Linguistics term
• ukemi (the art of falling safely) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• climate of the third month of the lunar calendar in Okinawa (end of the dry season); early summer

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 参院予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 衆院予算委員会

noun:

• Hexanchidae; family with four species and three genera of cow sharks characterized by either one or two additional pairs of gill slits

expression:

• to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture - proverb

noun:

• the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period ➜ 南都六宗

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism