noun:

• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term
• the seven days of the week

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers ➜ 単鉤法

noun / ~する noun:

• kneeling with the balls of the feet on the floor and sitting on one's heels ➜ 正座【せいざ】

noun:

• closing recital that transfers the merit of the service to a buddha, a bodhisattva, or the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• purpose; utility; objective
• way to use something

noun:

• benefit; use; good; advantage; gain
• profit; gains

expression / adjective:

• no use; useless; not fit for its purpose

expression:

• the proof of the pudding is in the eating; the proof is in the pudding; don't knock it till you've tried it - proverb

noun:

• the sun ［てんとう・てんどう］
• god of heaven and the earth ［てんとう・てんどう］
• laws governing the heavens ［てんとう・てんどう］
• celestial path; celestial motion ［てんとう・てんどう］ - Astronomy term
• deva realm (svarga) - Buddhism term ➜ 六道
• path in the heavens ［あまじ］

expression / noun:

• a man among the geese when the gander is away; a one-eyed king in the land of the blind; a bat in a village without birds [literal] - idiom

noun:

• member of the lower house; member of the House of Representatives

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information) ➜ いいとこ取り【いいとこどり】

noun / suffix noun:

• coming out; going out; outflow; efflux; rising (of the sun or moon)
• attending (work); appearing (on stage); one's turn to go on
• start; beginning
• origins; background; person (or item) originating from ...; graduate of ...; native of ...; member of ... (lineage)
• architectural member that projects outward
• highest point of the stern of a ship
• amount (comprising something); amount of time or effort required to do something - usu. after the -masu stem of a verb as 〜出がある or 〜出がない, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)

noun:

• Imperial official in charge of communication between the shogunate and the court (during the Muromachi and Edo periods) - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• Potsdam Orders (commands made after the Japanese surrender based on the demands of the Potsdam Declaration) ➜ ポツダム宣言

noun:

• days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle) ➜ 天一神・癸巳・戊申

noun:

• selling out before the price drops (usu. shares); selling at the top of the market

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; other people's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• 8 am; the fifth hour; the Hour of the Dragon

expression / adverb:

• in the end; at the end of the day

noun:

• reviving the dead; calling back the spirits of the dead

noun:

• losing the means of livelihood
• a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended - archaism
• (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook