noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

noun:

• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• ten rulers of the afterlife (who judge the dead and determine their placement in their next life) - Buddhism term

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be torn off; to come off
• to be torn to pieces; to be torn to shreds

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something/someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this - Hiroshima dialect ➜ こんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker) ➜ 何の【どの】・此れ・其の・彼の

noun:

• kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical - e.g. 道, 起

noun:

• lantana (plant, flower) ➜ ランタナ
• hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) ➜ アジサイ
• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to exchange glances; to look at each other
• to postpone; to put off; to withhold; to abandon
• to contrast; to compare

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to exchange glances; to look at each other ➜ 見合わせる
• to postpone; to put off; to withhold; to abandon ➜ 見合わせる
• to contrast; to compare ➜ 見合わせる

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• taiko; title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son - esp. refers to Toyotomi Hideyoshi - honorific language ➜ 関白【かんぱく】

noun:

• emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)

godan ~す verb:

• to excuse oneself; to take one's leave ➜ 辞する
• to quit; to resign; to retire; to leave post
• to decline; to turn down
• to not hesitate - adjectivally as 〜を辞さず, etc.

noun / ~の noun:

• (similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born

noun:

• high barometric pressure to the west, low pressure to the east - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be performed (on the stage)
• to be in the limelight

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to rear; to bring up
• to train; to teach; to educate
• to promote the growth of; to nurture; to foster; to develop

noun:

• part; section
• affected part (of the body)
• private parts; genitals

noun:

• Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma - From Sanskrit
• inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega

noun:

• first ears of rice of the season; first crops of the season; first harvest of the season
• offering (to the gods)