noun:

• ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• mutual love; the love one shows to another person being returned - four character idiom

noun:

• yakyuken; strip version of rock, paper, scissors (similar to strip poker)

expression:

• invoking disaster upon one's mortal enemy; Confusion to the enemy! - four character idiom

noun:

• a political settlement; settling (a dispute) politically (without resorting to force) - four character idiom

noun:

• stationed in France; resident to France (e.g. of Ambassadors, etc.)

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be a willing cats-paw or tool for a person

noun:

• sweet Lolita (fashion style) (as opposed to Gothic Lolita) ➜ ゴスロリ

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to explain or describe a situation or matter in greatest details

expression:

• to stand high in one's superior's favor and trust ➜ 御覚えがめでたい

expression:

• to stand high in one's superior's favor and trust ➜ 覚えがめでたい

expression / ~の noun:

• (living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistance

expression:

• wooing technique; the way to a man's (woman's) heart

noun:

• fourth watch of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am)

noun:

• fourth division of the night (approx. 1 am to 3 am) - archaism

noun:

• fifth division of the night (approx. 3 am to 5 am) - archaism

noun:

• Ogopogo (lake monster reported to live in Canada's Lake Okanagan)

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to take advantage of the troubled times (of an ambitious adventurer) - obscure term

noun:

• the Gospel according to Matthew (book of the Bible)

noun:

• the Gospel according to Mark (book of the Bible)

noun:

• the Gospel according to Luke (book of the Bible)

noun:

• the Gospel according to John (book of the Bible)

noun:

• First Epistle to the Corinthians (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Second Epistle to the Corinthians (book of the Bible)