expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

expression:

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

noun:

• polish; elaboration; repeatedly working over one's writing; being very scrupulous in the choice of diction - four character idiom

noun:

• harassment, e.g. in the workplace, from a position of power; bullying - From English "power harassment"

noun:

• someone who plays the part of a 'heel' (bad guy) in wrestling, films, etc. ➜ ヒール

noun:

• precious orb
• Cintamani stone; wish-fulfilling jewel - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 宝珠の玉
• hōju; uppermost spherical part of a pagoda finial

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste, esp. with lots of liquid - Food term ➜ 糠味噌漬け
• hot-dip galvanizing - colloquialism - Engineering term

adverb:

• with a snap; (break) cleanly - onomatopoeia
• (reject) sternly; flatly
• smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)

noun:

• Kristallnacht (night of concerted violence against Jews in Germany and Austria from November 9-10, 1938)

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki ➜ 鮑結び
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

noun:

• smoke screen; dazzler; distraction
• camouflage; deceptive means
• magic; witchcraft; sleight of hand
• shell game

interjection:

• exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)

noun:

• Chypre fragrance (family of scents including sage, lavender, and oak moss, used in perfumes)

expression:

• expression of humility said by the person who provided a meal after it is eaten - humble language ➜ お粗末

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) ➜ 入れ子

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) - obscure term ➜ 櫓杭

noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions - abbreviation ➜ カメラ小僧

noun:

• (in China) 7th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G sharp) ➜ 十二律・鳧鐘
• fifth lunar month

noun:

• (in China) 6th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G) ➜ 十二律・双調
• fourth lunar month

noun:

• (in China) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・平調
• first lunar month

noun:

• second note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) (in China) ➜ 十二律・断吟
• twelfth lunar month

noun:

• Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) ➜ 太政官

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

noun:

• Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei & Zhao) ➜ 戦国時代