noun:

• short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) ➜ 大の月

noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• getting angry (with someone who is angry with oneself); snapping back (at someone); lashing out (despite being in the wrong) - slang ➜ キレる

noun:

• anutpattika-dharma-ksanti (recognition that nothing really arises or perishes) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 無生法忍

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to bring a complaint to a person (who is responsible for the problem)

noun:

• Scoliodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the spadenose shark)

expression:

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

noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)

expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

noun:

• looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of) - four character idiom

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

noun:

• minor festival (held when there is no regular festival) ➜ 本祭り

noun:

• wait (until one is given permission)
• postponement; putting on hold

noun:

• siliceous sponge (any sponge other than those of class Calcarea)

noun:

• loaner vehicle (e.g. from a garage which is repairing one's vehicle)

noun:

• Triaenodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the whitetip reef shark)

noun:

• opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• requesting the testimony of an unsworn witness (who is not bound by perjury law)

expression:

• not to be able to settle down (if something is not done); must (do something)

noun:

• position (where one is standing); place where one stands
• position (in society); status; role; station

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to win every battle (that is fought); to be ever victorious - obscure term

noun:

• transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another) ➜ 式年遷宮祭

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians) - four character idiom