noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold (the opponent) in the arms and carry him out of the ring

noun / ~の noun:

• this world; the present life (in contrast to the land of the dead)

noun:

• re; 2nd note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

unclassified:

• le; the - From French

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

temporal noun:

• now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

noun:

• hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese - From Portuguese "calção" ➜ 袴

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun / ~の noun:

• half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary

noun / ~する noun:

• replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after
• to have lingering effects

noun:

• blue letter style; comparatively mature fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in blue) ➜ 赤文字系

expression:

• victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm - four character idiom

noun:

• large flat wooden plank shaped like a fish, struck like a gong at temple to indicate time of day - Buddhism term

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism - four character idiom

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜【しちよう】

noun:

• red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink) ➜ 青文字系

ichidan verb:

• to be made much of; to be lionized; to be sought after

noun:

• casual laborer (labourer); day laborer (labourer)