noun:

• making use of the surrounding landscape as a part of the design of a garden; natural scenery used as the background in the landscaping of a garden

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• juvenile delinquent under the age of fourteen; minor in trouble with the law

noun:

• purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline - Architecture term ➜ 母屋桁
• main building (of a manor) ➜ 母屋【おもや】
• central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to dive (into or under water)
• to get under; to get into; to get in; to creep into; to crawl under; to bury oneself; to burrow into; to dig oneself into; to snuggle under
• to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself; to go underground ➜ 地下に潜る

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun:

• generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward) ➜ ゆとり教育【ゆとりきょういく】

noun:

• study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
• provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law) - archaism ➜ 大学

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate ➜ ニホンザル
• sly person - derogatory term
• idiot; hick - derogatory term
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
• clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook ➜ 自在鉤
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof

noun:

• overhang

adverb:

• under the influence of

noun / ~の noun:

• under the rule of

noun / ~する noun:

• recitation (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); chanting; singing
• composition (of a Chinese or Japanese poem); composed poem

noun:

• (Japanese-style) undershirt worn under nagajuban ➜ 長襦袢

noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

noun:

• investigation committee (of prefectural assembly, established under Section 100 of the Act)

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go under; to pass under; to go through; to pass through
• to dive (into or under the water) ➜ 潜る【もぐる】
• to evade; to get around; to slip past
• to survive; to surmount

noun:

• alley; alleyway; lane ［路地・露路］
• bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; outdoors (non-greenhouse cultivation of crops) ［露地］
• teahouse garden ［路地・露地］
• path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

expression:

• under the influence of alcohol

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

noun:

• office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 律令制