noun:

• someone who is fast asleep - archaism

expression:

• what on Earth is this? - colloquialism ➜ 何だこれは【なんだこれは】

expression:

• frailty, thy name is woman - proverb

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

noun:

• performance; take; going before an audience or on-air
• game; season; crucial moment
• penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)

noun / ~の noun:

• third rank (in the Japanese court system)

noun:

• trinity (Christianity); the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• washing a kimono (or futon, etc.) without taking it apart; laundering whole ➜ 解き洗い

noun:

• fish or shrimp, etc. grilled so that it retains its original form

noun:

• user needs (generally in market research and IT)

expression:

• It's not much, but...; phrase used when giving gifts - polite language

expression:

• knock, and it shall be opened unto you; God answers prayers - from Matthew 7:7 - proverb

expression / noun:

• misty mountain with blossoming buds and flowers as it appears in spring

expression:

• one who knows little often repeats it - proverb ➜ 馬鹿の一つ覚え

expression:

• that's right; very well; it would be best to ...

noun:

• It girl; personable young woman with sex appeal

expression:

• ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too [literal]; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours - proverb ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• Bon Festival - esp. 精霊会 ➜ 盂蘭盆
• Buddhist service for the anniversary of the death of Shotoku Taishi (orig. the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar) - esp. 聖霊会

noun:

• earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud
• the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
• low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud) ➜ 鳥の子紙
• (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō) - also written as 犯土, 椎, 槌 ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

noun:

• cutting grass and trees is prohibited

noun:

• hair that is smoothed down - abbreviation ➜ 撫で付け髪

noun:

• (baby which is) unhappy unless held

noun:

• opening through which dirt is swept