expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

noun:

• staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

noun:

• simultaneously running for a seat in a single-member constituency and a seat in a proportionally representated constituency

noun:

• splashing on; splashing at - slang
• dish made by pouring broth over something (esp. bukkakesoba) ➜ 打っ掛け蕎麦
• ejaculation onto someone's face - vulgar

expression / noun / adjectival noun:

• real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own) - the いい is ironic

expression / noun:

• a man among the geese when the gander is away; a one-eyed king in the land of the blind; a bat in a village without birds [literal] - idiom

noun / suffix noun:

• room
• wife (of someone of high rank) - obscure term
• scabbard - obscure term
• Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a temple; visiting a temple
• joining a temple as a priest or head priest - obscure term

interjection:

• heigh-hoh; heave-ho
• hold on!; just a minute
• used as a meaningless word in a song for rhythm

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

noun:

• regret and sympathy; having lingering attachment and sympathy toward someone - four character idiom

noun:

• country bumpkin - archaism ➜ 田舎者
• someone from the same part of the country - archaism

conjunction / particle:

• indicates supposition; if ... then; when; after

particle:

• (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation - usu. ったら

noun / ~する noun:

• love at first sight; being taken with someone at the first meeting

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting

noun:

• showing (i.e. being visibly pregnant); someone who is visibly pregnant

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

expression / noun:

• clincher; pick-up line; honeyed phrase; telling phrase; phrase that brings someone around, esp. in personal relationships ➜ 口説き文句【くどきもんく】

noun:

• match (to light fire with)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be born

noun:

• intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)

noun / ~する noun:

• injury (to animate object); hurt

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to take (be in) charge of

noun:

• horizon (related to sea or lakes) ➜ 地平線

ichidan verb:

• to think, feel, consider, know, etc. - humble language ➜ ご存じ