noun:

• for one person's use

noun:

• countries which use Chinese characters

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to have long in use

noun / ~する noun:

• left behind (for later use)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to use one's influence

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to use one's head

noun:

• morning glory seeds (medicinal use) ➜ あさがお

suffix:

• effect; result; worth; use; avail ➜ 甲斐【かい】

noun:

• usage; way to use; utilization

noun:

• the 72 'climates' of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into three ➜ 節気・候【こう】

expression:

• the sand on the beach may disappear, but the makings of thieves never shall (Ishikawa Goemon)

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんすことば

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun / suffix noun:

• taking; taker; collecting; collector; remover; removal

noun:

• last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day
• active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration)

prefix:

• emphatic or formal prefix - before a verb

noun:

• whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna

expression / noun:

• changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons ➜ 移り変わり【うつりかわり】

noun:

• large jewel; string of jewels - archaism
• Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 勾玉・三種の神器

expression:

• each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; when there are ministries, there is no country [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• ball of a finger; finger cushion; pulp of the finger; pad of the finger

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
• (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
• flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• remaining unchanged (from the old state of things); none the better for the change (if at all) - four character idiom

noun:

• stepping out of the ring while carrying the opponent over the edge, not considered as a loss - Sumo term

noun:

• rite welcoming back the gods from Izumo Shrine (on the last day of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神送り

noun:

• the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the koyomi for each year