noun:

• Vairocana; Mahavairocana (Bliss Body of the historical Gautama Buddha); Dainichi Buddha; Nyorai Buddha - Buddhism term

adverb:

• between the waves; in the waves; on the waves; behind the waves; beneath the waves ➜ 波間【なみま】

noun:

• drawing a tile from the wall - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• win with a self-drawn tile - Mahjong term
• winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (yaku); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 門前清自摸和

noun:

• former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc. ➜ 士長

expression:

• Out of Asia and Into Europe (slogan calling for Japan to align itself with the West) - four character idiom

noun:

• small knife that is largely ornamental or used to cut open letters and the like ➜ 小刀

noun:

• petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China) ➜ 稗史

noun:

• Osaka Incident; plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising, 1885

noun:

• former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period) ➜ バテレン

adjectival noun / noun:

• hard (on the ears); offensive (to the ear); rasping; rough; harsh; grating; jarring; cacophonous

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing by ear; ad hoc approach - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• taking the podium; mounting the rostrum; going on stage to give a speech, etc.

expression:

• there is little to choose between the two; they're both about the same - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• entry into the sanctum of a shrine or temple; access to the imperial court

noun:

• sleeping while on a sea voyage; falling asleep to the sound of the ocean

noun / ~の noun:

• according to (depending on) the mood of the moment; as one's fancy dictates - four character idiom

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• Shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area

noun:

• name given to the lowest rank of the Japanese caste system after its abolition - obsolete term - derogatory term

prefix:

• august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language

noun:

• form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) ➜ 宿曜

noun:

• finishing board nailed where the floor boards meet the wall; (similar to) skirting, baseboards

noun:

• Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido ➜ 蝦夷地【えぞち】

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom