noun:

• sweetbread; thymus or pancreas (esp. of a calf or a lamb) - Food term

noun:

• (crime of) rape (or attempted rape) resulting in death or injury - Law term

noun:

• judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner (from the decisions of Ōoka Tadasuke, a jurist in 17th century Japan)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be thoughtful (of a gift, etc.); to be from the heart; to be made with loving care

adjectival noun / noun:

• lacking of flair or refinement; lacking interests or hobbies; vulgarity; dull; prosaic

noun:

• acquisition or forfeiture; acquisition (question of whether or not something is acquired) - from 取得 and 喪失

noun:

• parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother)
• (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)

noun:

• one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it - four character idiom

noun:

• two books on the art of war in ancient China; the secrets (essence) of the art of war; secrets of successful life; precepts for living - four character idiom

noun:

• number of people
• denominate number
• the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world" ➜ 三筆・四天王

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

noun:

• cattle or horse trader; good judge of horses or cattle - sensitive

noun / ~する noun:

• setting oneself free from the life of a white-collar worker; quitting a job as a salaryman and launching an independent business ➜ サラ

noun:

• letters (characters) indicating the end of a movie (The End, Fin, etc.) - From English "end mark"
• indication of the end (of something)

noun:

• Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; enchanted land of perpetual youth from Chinese mythology
• sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.) ➜ 三蓬莱
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - abbreviation ➜ 蓬莱飾り
• Formosa; Taiwan

noun:

• conveyance of the opinions of the lower classes to the powers that be - four character idiom

noun:

• the Revelation of St. John the Divine (book of the Bible) ➜ 黙示録

noun:

• the eight ministries (under the Grand Council of State of the ritsuryo system) ➜ 太政官

expression:

• out of touch with the voters; indifferent to the concerns of the people

noun:

• night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

noun:

• night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 元宵

expression:

• rise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)

expression:

• the future is unpredictable; unscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate - proverb ➜ 人間万事塞翁が馬

noun:

• number or size of periodicals or pictures; type size

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom