noun:

• long roofed passageway (originally having an earthen floor and used as a bridle path) - めんどう is also written with the ateji 面道 ➜ 寝殿造り

expression:

• life is not easy; life is hard - proverb

noun:

• being under the rule of; being under the government of

expression:

• the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)

noun / ~する noun:

• worldly wise; sophisticated; street smart; knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); toughness

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

noun:

• skin
• condom - colloquialism
• skin (e.g. alternative look and feel for interface of a program) - IT term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sit in a row; to be present (and lined up)

ichidan verb:

• to steal a glance; to intercept and read (e.g. other people's email)

noun:

• sweet adzuki bean paste made of a mixture of mashed and whole beans

noun:

• comedian who plays a lover's part; man who is both handsome and fun - halfway between 二枚目 and 三枚目 - four character idiom

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger ➜ 双鉤法

expression:

• in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

noun:

• samurai and commoners
• normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing)

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

noun:

• anticipating the escape of the king and blocking him in advance with a knight - Shōgi term

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap) ➜ 平瓦・瓦当

noun:

• scaffolding and temporary roof placed around a shrine, temple, etc. undergoing repair; protective scaffolding

noun:

• note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale - Music term ➜ 徴【ち】

expression:

• blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator - proverb ➜ 時の氏神【ときのうじがみ】・挨拶

~と adverb / adverb / ~する noun:

• pleasantly warm; nice and warm - onomatopoeia
• repeatedly (hitting someone); again and again; over and over - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the passage of people and horses; coming and going of people and horses - four character idiom