noun:

• various forms of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetry, sarugaku acrobatics performance) ➜ 猿楽【さるがく】
• miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period ➜ 歌謡

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

noun:

• the six emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure and love, and hatred)

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

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

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

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

expression:

• be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth - from Genesis 1:28 - proverb

expression:

• views in and around the city of Kyoto (paintings and drawings) ➜ 図・洛中洛外

noun / ~する noun:

• considering the pros and cons of; examining arguments for and against

noun:

• ineptitude and inaction; being incapable of devising any appropriate measures to cope with the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities

noun:

• twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activites - obscure term ➜ 十二直

noun:

• game similar to rock, paper, scissors, with the hand gestures fox, hunter and village headman

noun:

• message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let someone have the credit for (a success); to let someone else carry the flowers [literal]

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun:

• water poisoning (in traditional Chinese medicine, illnesses caused by excessive water accumulation within the body)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl ［曲げる］
• to lean; to tilt; to incline; to slant ［曲げる］
• to bend (the truth); to distort; to twist; to pervert
• to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks)
• to pawn

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to kidnap; to abduct; to snatch; to carry people away; to take by force ➜ 拉致

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

expression:

• to live long is to outlive much; the longer you live, the more shame you suffer - proverb

noun:

• Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom