noun:

• winning technique where the opponent is lifted out by his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• thus I hear (quote from the sutras); these ears have heard - four character idiom

noun:

• "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs - from アルバイト and salon - abbreviation

noun:

• rotating warning light similar to the one on a patrol car - abbreviation - From English "patrol light" ➜ パトカー

noun:

• prescoring (recording the music or sound effects before filming a scene) - abbreviation

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• cementum (hard connective tissue covering the tooth root); cement

noun:

• (decision to) censure (as issued by the upper house of parliament)

noun:

• Tartary (various tribes that historically inhabited the area north of China)

expression:

• (with) only the clothes one happens to wear

noun:

• three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament - Sumo term ➜ 殊勲賞・敢闘賞・技能賞

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a ceremonial hand movement when receiving the monetary award - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事渺茫

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's dress (e.g. at the wedding reception)

noun:

• annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

expression:

• Wrong and right are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom

expression:

• Good and evil are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• Blossoms fall and leaves scatter; the evanescence (impermanence) of worldly things - four character idiom

noun:

• Cercidiphyllaceae; monotypic plant family containing the katsura trees ➜ 桂【かつら】

noun:

• Lamiaceae; Labiatae; family of flowering plants comprising the mints

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• era name selected by commoners (as opposed to the imperial court) - obscure term

noun:

• Kentoku era (of the Southern Court) (1370.7.24-1372.4.?)