expression:

• having no idea what will happen; God only knows; there is no knowing; you never can tell

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• deserted and lonesome; quiet and alone; innocent and nonattached; All is void - archaism - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• broad-minded ➜ 懐の深い
• (of a rikishi) tall, with long reach, making it harder for their opponent to get a grip on their mawashi

noun:

• vocation; lifework; calling
• sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)
• prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period) ➜ 天神

noun:

• the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts) - Buddhism term ➜ 難行道

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools ➜ 両天秤に掛ける

expression / ichidan verb:

• to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools ➜ 両天秤を掛ける

conjunction:

• as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

conjunction:

• as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.) ➜ に連れて

expression / ichidan verb:

• to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)

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:

• beginning of the month or the year; New Year's Day; the calendar

noun:

• conveyance of the opinions of the lower classes to the powers that be - four character idiom

noun:

• 'ra'-removed; the practice of skipping the 'ra' from the 'rareru' verb conjugation - abbreviation ➜ ら抜き言葉

noun:

• the Revelation of St. John the Divine (book of the Bible) ➜ 黙示録

noun:

• the eight ministries (under the Grand Council of State of the ritsuryo system) ➜ 太政官

expression:

• out of touch with the voters; indifferent to the concerns of the people

noun:

• night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

noun:

• night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 元宵

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing the old year out; greeting the New Year; passing the winter; hibernation

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term