expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun:

• marriage by abduction; marriage by capture; bride kidnapping
• marriage where the person courted was already married

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

noun:

• (of a woman) divorcing and moving back in with her parents - sensitive
• (of an employee) leaving a position only to return to it later
• (of a ship) leaving from and returning to the same port

expression / noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

noun:

• massage and possibly sexual services performed by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform - slang ➜ ｊｋ【ジェイケイ】・リフレ

noun / ~の noun:

• duty; sense of duty; honor; honour; decency; courtesy; debt of gratitude; social obligation

~の noun:

• in-law; relation by marriage

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• sizes (various); large and small
• daisho (matched pair of long and short swords)
• large and small drums
• long months and short months

noun:

• sic bo (Macau dice game); tai sai; dai siu; big and small

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌

noun:

• the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)

noun:

• embankment; bank
• beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin - abbreviation ➜ どて焼き

noun:

• pace; tempo; slow and fast
• in case of emergency

adverb:

• all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny

noun:

• true Tokyoite; person born and raised in Edo

noun:

• hypothetical form (of verbs and adjectives in modern Japanese) - Linguistics term ➜ 已然形【いぜんけい】

noun:

• Wu and Yue (two rival states in ancient China) ➜ 呉【ご】・越【えつ】

noun:

• natural calamity; striking phenomena in heaven and earth

noun:

• metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music

noun:

• person collapsed and dying (dead) in the street

noun:

• squid chopped, salted and mixed in its own ink

noun:

• young women completely outfitted in Chanel clothing and accessories - From English "Chaneler"

noun:

• Uighur (Turkic people and language in China); Uygur