expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be left without means of sustenance; to be turned adrift in the streets; to be rendered homeless; to be out in the cold; to be down and out - idiom

expression:

• (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; badgers of the same hole [literal] - idiom

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• side house (to the east, west, or north of a main residence; home to women, children and servants) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• luo han guo (Siraitia grosvenorii); herbaceous perennial vine native to China and Thailand; fruit of the Siraita grosvenorii

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to outwit; to get the better of; to overcome a superior opponent and leave him speechless

noun:

• ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

noun:

• the rise of the curtain; opening (of play) ➜ 幕開き
• beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest; severe fight

noun / ~の noun:

• being empty-handed; bare hand (e.g. fight)
• being penniless

noun:

• worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term

noun:

• to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ➜ 枡形
• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

noun:

• stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out - slang

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

adverb:

• that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean; that (this, it) means
• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it; basically

noun:

• clogging; obstruction; stuffing; (degree of) blockage
• shrinkage
• end; conclusion ➜ とどのつまり
• dead end; corner - archaism
• distress; being at the end of one's rope - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha

noun:

• day of the boar in the month of the boar (the 10th month) ➜ 亥の子の祝

noun:

• to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
• to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)

noun:

• the rise of the curtain; opening (of play) ➜ 幕開け
• beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)