noun:

• feeling (looking) lone and helpless; helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• considering (a matter) carefully and silently; being lost in silent contemplation - four character idiom

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• with colors flying and band playing; triumphantly; in splendid array

noun:

• light shower on a night in late autumn and early winter - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement - four character idiom ➜ 侘寂

noun:

• long holiday (esp. Golden Week in late April and early May) ➜ ゴールデンウィーク

noun:

• naan; nan; flatbread in Central and South Asian cuisine - From Hindi

noun:

• 34 (originally 33) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture ➜ 三十三所

noun / ~する noun:

• rolling about
• tossing and turning (in bed); jactitation; jactation ➜ 輾転反側

noun:

• office in Heian Kyoto responsible for police and judicial duties - obscure term

noun:

• careful and thorough person
• older male in an homosexual relationship ［ねんじゃ］ ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】

noun:

• Eviota korechika (species of pygmy goby found in Japan and Indonesia)

noun:

• Trimma grammistes (species of small goby found in Japan and Taiwan)

noun:

• Eviota lacrimae (species of pygmy goby found in Japan and Tonga)

noun:

• blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus, found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• pavilion housing imperial treasures and historical artifacts (in Heian Palace) ➜ 十七殿

noun:

• portable incense burner (ball-shaped and carried in one's clothes)

noun:

• low-ranking samurai - abbreviation - derogatory term ➜ 三一侍
• rolling three and one (in a dice game) - orig. meaning ➜ ピン

noun / ~する noun:

• sprinkling salt on a raw vegetable and rubbing it in - Food term ➜ 揉む【もむ】

noun:

• the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• combined umbrella and halberd carried on floats in some festivals

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄

noun:

• wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
• going badly (one's business, one's fortune, the economy); being in a bad financial situation