expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

expression:

• better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• de facto marriage; common-law marriage; living together as husband and wife without formal marriage - four character idiom

noun:

• emperor; living god; god incarnate
• miracle-working god (who appears as the occasion demands)

noun:

• radio equipment; facility that can transmit radio waves (as defined in Japan's radio law)

noun:

• specified disaster; disaster of extreme severity; large-scale (natural, etc.) disaster identified as especially disruptive - Law term

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

noun:

• written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll)
• a text written entirely in kana
• graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries)
• notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.)
• rough draft

noun:

• public goods (i.e. goods or services such as lighthouses, military installations, etc., which are provided by government) ➜ 集合財

noun:

• writers and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• Okinawan lion (or lion dog) statue placed as talisman against evil at entrances and on roofs - しーしー and しし are col. ➜ 獅子

noun:

• bread roll filled with anko
• paint thinner placed inside a bag used as a drug

noun:

• poets and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting, and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)

noun:

• toy from Fukushima prefecture in the shape of a red cow, also used as a talisman against smallpox

noun:

• Pseudocarchariidae; family whose only member is a species of mackerel shark known as the crocodile shark

noun:

• Cephaloscyllium (genus of catshark known as swellsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae capable of inflating their body)

noun:

• train ticket printed on soft paper, etc. (usu. dispensed from a vending machine as part of a roll) ➜ 硬券

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as a Shinto offering) - poetic name - archaism ➜ 玉串

noun:

• folk song from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture (used as a Bon Festival dance song)

noun:

• soft, downy hair (i.e. such as on one's cheek); peach fuzz; fluff; pappus
• lanugo

~の noun:

• lanuginous; pappose; pappous

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

adjectival noun / noun:

• standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal - four character idiom

noun:

• Lamnidae; family of large, fast-swimming sharks known as mackerel sharks or white sharks