noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with

expression:

• to catch a weasel asleep; to pluck out the eye of a live horse [literal] - idiom - sensitive - obsolete term

noun:

• Japanese style of calligraphy based on the gyousho style popular in the Edo period ➜ 青蓮院流

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be put at a disadvantage; to get the short end of the stick

noun:

• distance between two points; distance between opposite supports of arch, bridge; span

noun:

• Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR - abbreviation ➜ ソビエト社会主義共和国連邦【ソビエトしゃかいしゅぎきょうわこくれんぽう】

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• happy; elated; good mood; pleasant feelings

adjectival noun:

• cured (of an illness); recovered (from an illness)

noun:

• Śakra (Deva); Shakra; Indra; Shakra Devanam Indra; the king of heaven in Hindu mythology - Buddhism term

noun:

• foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships) - archaism - colloquialism

noun:

• Rashidun period (the period of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, 632-661 CE)

noun:

• mu (Chinese measure of land area, formerly ~600 m.sq., currently ~667 m.sq.) - obscure term ➜ 畝【せ】

noun:

• waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)

noun:

• mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens, species of Western Pacific rabbitfish); dusky rabbitfish; sandy spinefoot

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) - obscure term ➜ 四衆

noun:

• imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization); policy of imperialisation

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

noun:

• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to take a lesson from (a wise person); to follow in the footsteps of - idiom

noun:

• the path that one should follow as a human being; the path of benevolence

noun:

• proper map; map such that the inverse image of a compact set is compact - Mathematics term

noun:

• bluespine unicornfish (Naso unicornis, species of Indo-Pacific tang); bluespine surgeonfish; short-nose unicornfish

noun:

• Atlantic sharpnose shark (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, species of requiem shark found in the northwestern Atlantic)