expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a ceremonial hand movement when receiving the monetary award - Sumo term

expression:

• 10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone - Sumo term

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's dress (e.g. at the wedding reception)

noun:

• annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

noun / adjectival noun:

• unenlightened; in the darkest ignorance; not knowing from A to B - four character idiom

noun:

• Cercidiphyllaceae; monotypic plant family containing the katsura trees ➜ 桂【かつら】

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• era name selected by commoners (as opposed to the imperial court) - obscure term

noun:

• empty (e.g. intermodal containers in the transport industry) - abbreviation ➜ 実入り【みいり】

adverb:

• secretly; behind someone's back; unbeknownst to the parties involved

particle:

• particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information

noun:

• knee touch down - Sumo term
• posture with knees and toes on the floor

noun:

• selling something by the boxful (in a wooden masu box)

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 八部衆

noun:

• flagstaff decorated with ivory carried by the emperor or a general

noun:

• various information recorded in the almanac (as regards astronomy, astrology, etc.)

noun:

• true fruit (i.e. one that forms from the ovary only) ➜ 偽果

noun:

• women's hairstyle (first appearing during the mid-18th century) - archaism

noun:

• polygon; -gon ➜ 多角形【たかくけい】
• Japanese rectangular envelope (opening on the short side) - esp. かくけい

noun:

• fired earthenware vessel used by the emperor to clean his hands - archaism

noun:

• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 杉原紙

noun:

• marriage between two people who met over the Internet - obscure term - slang ➜ パソコン