expression:

• any event can bring about an effect in an unexpected way; if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper [literal] - proverb

noun:

• being unable to read the situation; being unable to pick up on the mood of a conversation - from the initials of 空気（が）読めない - abbreviation ➜ 空気が読めない

noun:

• young person acting like an old person
• officials who helped the council of elders during the Edo period ➜ 老中

noun:

• Prajnaparamita Sutra; Perfection of Wisdom Sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• silent reading of sutra ➜ 看経
• Amitayurdhyana Sutra - abbreviation ➜ 観無量寿経

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb ➜ 奢る平家久しからず【おごるへいけひさしからず】

noun:

• Gate of the Celestial Rock Cave

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term ➜ 見せ板【みせいた】

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term

noun:

• the year before the unlucky year

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

noun / ~する noun:

• concurrently studying the teachings of two or more different schools or sects

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly
• to express (e.g. emotion in poetry)
• to read (extra meaning) into (something)
• to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system); to load - IT term

noun:

• Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra; Nirvana Sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra; Nirvana Sutra - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 大般涅槃経

noun:

• shooting from the hip
• starting something without sufficient preparation; acting on a vague estimate (of the situation) - idiom

noun:

• young bird; chick
• hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival ［ひな］
• green; wet behind the ears; juvenile ［ひよこ・ひよっこ］

noun:

• heaven without fighting; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

expression / noun:

• the most one can do; as much as one can; as hard as possible

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

noun:

• rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them

noun:

• Avalokitesvara Sutra; Kannon Sutra

noun:

• Avalokitesvara Sutra; Kannon Sutra - abbr. of 観世音菩薩普門品 - abbreviation