noun:

• remainder of the Diet session after the creation of the budget

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold) - four character idiom

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold - proverb ➜ 春宵一刻

noun:

• middle of a body of water (e.g. a lake, a river)

noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation ➜ 空気を読む

expression / adjective:

• unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation ➜ 空気を読む

noun:

• Man'yōshū; 8th century anthology of Japanese poetry; Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves [literal]

noun:

• genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• strong independent Japanese woman from the Kochi area - Tosa dialect

noun:

• the Japanese spirit imbued with Chinese learning - four character idiom

noun:

• letter dropped in the road; Japanese insect

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata) - archaism

noun:

• Japanese as spoken during the Edo period - Linguistics term

noun:

• Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn the rudder of a ship; to change direction (of policy, etc.)

expression:

• variant of "de arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period ➜ ありんす

noun:

• taking something out; carrying out
• providing money oneself; paying with one's own money
• corbel - Architecture term
• strengthening under a seam (clothing)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tread (a nail) into the sole of one's foot; to tread through (the floor)

noun / ~の noun:

• (a woman of) unparalleled beauty; (a woman's beauty being) matchless throughout the land - four character idiom

noun:

• spirit of a deceased person - honorific language
• the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit ［みたま］ - honorific language ➜ 聖霊

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag ➜ 問うに落ちず語るに落ちる

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• outblooming even a flower (of a young girl); even the flower blushes (before her beauty) [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• attending someone through the night (guard, nurse)
• act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding)
• keeping overnight vigil over body before burial