noun:

• eradication of (sources of) evil; laying the ax to the root of evil - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; moving in the wrong direction; running counter to (e.g. the laws of nature); running against (e.g. the tide of the times) Antonym: 順行
• retrogradation; retrogression - Astronomy term

noun:

• toe-in (alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back)

noun:

• imperturbability; steadfastness
• cool head in an emergency; keeping one's calm (e.g. during a fight) - Martial Arts term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• textbook approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; government-approved textbook

expression:

• as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain - four character idiom

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

noun:

• meridian (e.g. in acupuncture); channel; one of the lines connecting vital points in the body
• thread of connection; chain of reasoning

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

noun / ~する noun:

• straining; draining

noun:

• drainer; strainer; colander
• cutwater (on ship); forefoot; drip (on building); flashing; throating; starling (on bridge)
• stone skipping; skipping rocks; ducks and drakes

noun / ~する noun:

• snipping the stem of a cut flower without raising it out of water

noun:

• the seven spring flowers - abbreviation ➜ 春の七草
• the seven fall flowers; the seven autumn flowers - abbreviation ➜ 秋の七草
• the seventh of January; Festival of Seven Herbs - abbreviation ➜ 七草の節句

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.

noun:

• Japan surgeonfish (Acanthurus japonicus, Indo-West Pacific species of tang found from Indonesia to the Philippines and Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• cheek pouch (monkey, squirrel, etc.)
• iron mask that covers the chin and cheeks (worn by samurai)
• Anadara kagoshimensis (species of ark clam) - abbreviation ➜ 猿頰貝

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

noun:

• Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism - Buddhism term ➜ 奈落【ならく】

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term