noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

noun:

• food theme park; indoor park with many restaurants and food shops based on a single theme

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

noun:

• mixed vegetable and seafood tempura ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・掻揚げ・掻揚］
• something pulled upwards
• small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・搔き揚げ］ - abbreviation ➜ かき揚げ城【かきあげじろ】
• turning up a lamp wick

noun:

• division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods - archaism
• the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)

expression:

• where ... is concerned; when it comes to ...; if it comes to ...; as far as ... is concerned

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be different from what was previously said; to be different from what was promised

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages ［はい］

suffix / counter:

• counter for cupfuls
• counter for ships, octopuses and squid ［はい］

noun:

• tōsō-on; Tang-Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese ➜ 唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

noun:

• total work of art; complete work of art; Gesamtkunstwerk; artwork that integrates music, poetry, and acting; composite art

noun:

• northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

noun:

• fabric with a brocade and embroidery; beautiful fabric; beautiful clothes
• beautiful poem; beautiful wording
• beautiful autumn leaves; beautiful flowers

expression:

• always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb

noun:

• daily life; daily routine; while awake or asleep; at all times; day in, day out; constantly; the four cardinal behaviors - walking, standing, sitting and lying [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• scoring hand in hanafuda with one 20 point flower card and six 1 point flower cards ➜ 花札
• something (or someone) that stands out above the rest

noun:

• morning
• morning coat - abbreviation ➜ モーニングコート
• breakfast set (often a drink and toast); breakfast special; special breakfast offer - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ モーニングセット

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• whirling; revolving; spinning; going round and round - onomatopoeia
• coiling around; winding around; rolling around - onomatopoeia
• working tirelessly; working hard - onomatopoeia
• constantly changing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term