noun:

• existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning - obscure term - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; NISA - abbreviation

noun / adjectival noun:

• (an explanation, advice, etc. being) kind, careful, and thorough

noun:

• credit card and consumer financing - from クレジット会社 and サラリーマン金融

noun / adjectival noun:

• (a man) having a commanding face and a powerful physique - four character idiom

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅

adverb:

• every morning and evening - four character idiom

noun:

• iron and stone; iron will

noun:

• scenery being beautiful in both rainy and sunny weather - four character idiom

noun:

• Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

expression:

• fights and fires are Edo's flowers - proverb ➜ 江戸の華

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)

noun:

• (late Edo-period) idea of uniting the court and the shogunate

noun:

• The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; JCCI - abbreviation ➜ 日本商工会議所

expression:

• make one wrong move and...; take one wrong step and...

noun:

• priests and laymen - obscure term

noun:

• sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) - esp. 吉備団子
• millet dumplings - esp. 黍団子

noun:

• UN Economic and Social Council

noun / ~する noun:

• joint management

noun:

• praise and censure; public criticisms - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably

noun / ~する noun:

• oversleeping and hence feeling despair - from 絶望の起床 - slang

noun:

• viewing all things as undifferentiated and equal; non-discriminative thought
• contemplation of the equality of all things from the standpoint of emptiness - Buddhism term

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom