noun:

• branch of languages (i.e. Italic languages as a subset of Indo-European languages)

expression:

• rise of the dragon (bringing rain around the time of the spring equinox)

noun:

• three mountains
• three shrines (of Kumano)
• three kingdoms (of 14th- and 15th-century Okinawa)

noun:

• freedom of information; access to information; disclosure of information (e.g. by the government)

expression:

• the future is unpredictable; unscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate - proverb ➜ 人間万事塞翁が馬

noun:

• way of hearing; way a spoken statement is taken; way of asking

noun:

• hit
• success
• guess; prediction
• affability; friendliness
• sensation; touch
• bruise (on fruit)
• situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move (in the game of go)
• bite (of a fish on a hook); strike - also written as 魚信 ➜ 魚信

suffix:

• per; each

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term
• The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern) ［さんぞん］ ➜ 三尊天井
• the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold) - four character idiom

noun:

• sac spider (any spider of family Clubionidae)
• Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider) ➜ 地蜘蛛

expression:

• person of poor character; narrow-minded; unpleasant person; gossip-monger; person of low self-esteem

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening is worth a thousand pieces of gold - proverb ➜ 春宵一刻

noun:

• person in charge (of an area of work); person responsible; contact (person)

noun:

• mode (musical mode, mode of probability distribution, state of physical system)
• fashion - From French "mode"

noun:

• the coming of Amida Buddha to welcome the spirits of the dead

noun:

• of great build or stature
• great number of soldiers; great army

noun:

• lead tree (lead or zinc in a solution of acetate of lead)

noun:

• true dharma; true teachings of Buddha - Buddhism term
• period of the True Law

noun:

• middle of a body of water (e.g. a lake, a river)

noun:

• scenery seen on the morning of the first day of the year

expression:

• Thank you; How nice of you; That's kind of you

noun:

• type of long chopsticks used in the preparation of fish; type of long chopsticks used to hold the fish in carving knife ceremony

noun:

• fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
• sad world; world of grief and worry - esp. 憂き世
• the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world
• (the world of the) red light districts

noun:

• banquet on the occasion of the first ceremonial offering of rice by the newly-enthroned emperor ➜ 大嘗祭

expression:

• variation of "arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period