noun:

• outdoor fire with dense smoke to repel mosquitoes; mosquito-fumigation

noun:

• purification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to make a circle (e.g. draw, paint, describe, walk, drive, etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

expression / adjective:

• not at all inferior to; rival or surpass; compare favorably (with)

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to have one's heart touched (by something very moving)

noun / ~する noun:

• focus of one's attention (on a specific field); commitment to something

noun:

• ten highest ranked maegashira wrestlers certain to wrestle against san'yaku ranks - Sumo term

noun:

• Yokozuna Deliberation Committee; body that recommends promotion of wrestlers to grand champions - Sumo term

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop the opponent by pressing one's head into his chest - Sumo term

noun:

• caltrop (spiked device scattered to maim infantry and horses); calthrop; caltrap

noun / adjectival noun:

• stubbornly sticking to old ways; narrow-mindedly rejecting other people's views - four character idiom

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• passing away peacefully to be reborn in Paradise through invocation of Amitabha - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being busy with many things; extreme busyness due to pressure of business - often used humorously - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• attentively; with great attention to detail (e.g. when teaching); patiently

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• to have the memory of having done something oneself (subordinate phrase) ➜ 身に覚えがある

noun:

• digitally altered photograph (e.g. made to look like an oil painting)

noun:

• Bing cherry - From English "American cherry"
• cherries imported to Japan from America

noun:

• ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan - obscure term