noun:

• Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is ➜ 六曜

noun:

• somebody who is bad at horse-riding
• a fidgety, restless person

noun:

• wait (until one is given permission)
• postponement; putting on hold

noun:

• female bedmate (whose body is likened to a fleshy cushion) - archaism

expression / noun:

• useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand - idiom

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

adverb:

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

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

expression:

• obviously; as we all know; needless to say; of course; it goes without saying

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

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:

• an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)

noun:

• a number so great it can never be counted to - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "asamkhya"

numeric:

• 10^56 (or 10^64)

noun:

• crime of conscience
• premeditated crime; act carried out while knowing that it should not be - originally considered an incorrect usage - colloquialism

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it); being stone-deaf to someone's appeals - four character idiom

noun:

• wind drying; drying something by hanging it in a drafty place (e.g. fish)

interjection:

• get lost; get out of my sight; scram; beat it; buzz off; go away ➜ 消え失せる

adverb:

• something going right into or coming right out of a place where it fits snugly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom