noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 逢う魔が時

noun:

• rumbling stomach; noise from gas moving inside the digestive tract; borborygmus; rugitus

noun:

• usu. the drop between collar and bottom hem on kimono, yukata, etc.

noun:

• thrusting down one's opponent either inside or outside the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward) - Sumo term

noun:

• The Big Apple (nickname for New York City)

noun:

• sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (Mar. 20, 1995)

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

noun:

• Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• heavenly king - Buddhism term
• Gozu Tenno (deity said to be the Indian god Gavagriva) ➜ 牛頭天王

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 旅所

expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)