noun:

• Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Pleiades; Seven Sisters - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・白虎【びゃっこ】

noun:

• body double (orig. of a military leader)
• wire puller; someone behind the scenes

noun / ~する noun:

• mistake; blunder; bungle; goof
• mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles - original meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area

noun:

• natural gifts
• Tenju era (of the Southern Court) (1375.5.27-1381.2.10)

noun / ~する noun:

• having an audience with someone of very high social standing (e.g. the emperor) - humble language

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)

noun:

• finishing touch; completing (something) by executing the final, critical step - four character idiom

expression:

• much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)

noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; the trouble of coming (going) [literal] - polite language

noun:

• wharf roach (species of isopod closely related to the sea slater; Ligia exotica)

noun:

• stealthy steps
• spurt to overtake a leading horse just before the finish line

expression / noun:

• coming to nothing ➜ 水泡
• bubble on the surface of water
• something that is short-lived

noun:

• chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• first ring-entering ceremony of the newly promoted grand champion, performed at Meiji shrine

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term ➜ 貴輪時代

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• closing, either for the day or permanently (e.g. theme park, botanical garden, etc.) - used for ~園 Antonym: 開園

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• giving off a foul odor; the air being heavy with an offensive smell - four character idiom

noun:

• a good chance coming along; the time has come (for, to, when...); opportunity knocking - four character idiom

noun:

• Ginkgoaceae; family of flowering plants whose only extant member is the ginkgo ➜ 銀杏【いちょう】

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one