noun / ~する noun:

• seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be experienced in the ways of the world; to taste the bitter and the sweet

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

expression / adverb:

• in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

noun:

• backwash; rip current; undertow ➜ 寄せ波
• stern wave
• drawback (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave trough reaches land before a crest) ➜ 押し波

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom

noun:

• juice pressed from a bitter orange ➜ ポンス
• ponzu (Japanese sauce made primarily of soy sauce and citrus juice) - abbreviation ➜ ポン酢醤油

noun:

• cinnabar; vermillion; red; slightly-orange red
• red pigment (and ink made from same)
• red text (as used to correct documents)

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其れ・彼の

interjection:

• um...; er...; uh...

noun:

• unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water - Food term ➜ 粥

noun:

• gold crown (tooth) ［きんかん］
• golden crown; coronet; crown made out of gold

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

noun:

• incorporating; inserting
• nesting (e.g. of matryoshka dolls); nest
• square offering tray made of unvarnished wood (three per nested set)
• latticed ceiling - abbreviation - Architecture term ➜ 組み入れ天井

noun:

• call of a strange bird; strange bird-call-like sound

noun:

• immersion; dipping; in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture; in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

interjection:

• come, come; come; come now
• here you go; here; when handing something