noun:

• kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period - four character idiom

noun:

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

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - idiom

expression:

• to not be getting with the times; to be unaware that things are changing - from a fable in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals - idiom

noun:

• cylindrical candy made so that Kintaro's face appears wherever it is sliced ➜ 金太郎・金太郎

adjectival noun:

• inflexibly uniform; all the same; stamped out like cookies

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• the other day; lately; recently; during this period
• meanwhile; in the meantime ［このかん］

noun:

• full of vigor and vitality (like the rising sun) (vigour); being in the ascendant - four character idiom

noun:

• form of hopscotch in which the player kicks a stone through the course

noun:

• (in Japanese history) crude warrior from the eastern parts of the country; wild man

noun:

• view in the distant offing where the sea and skyline cannot be distinguished - four character idiom

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger ➜ 双鉤法

noun:

• metal rod in a wooden plane which holds the chip breaker against the blade

noun:

• general term for the nine holes in the body of humans and other mammals

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor) - abbreviation ➜ 紫微垣

noun:

• Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)

noun:

• mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)

prefix:

• august (in ref. to the emperor or the gods); imperial; divine - honorific language

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れ舞台

expression:

• slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping - proverb

noun:

• anticipating the escape of the king and blocking him in advance with a knight - Shōgi term

noun:

• form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) ➜ 宿曜

noun:

• government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo - archaism ➜ 令【りょう】・律令【りつりょう】

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road