noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• break and run out in billiards (9 ball, 8 ball, etc.).

noun:

• three highest ranks in a ministry: minister, vice minister and parliamentary secretary ➜ 大臣【だいじん】・副大臣・政務官

noun:

• one-yen taxi (in the Taisho and Showa periods); taxi - abbr. of 一円タクシー

noun:

• meeting; gathering
• village assembly
• two wrestlers approaching each other - Sumo term

noun:

• nest table; several tables inside each other

noun:

• head-hunting; recruiting professionals from other companies

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be (standing) together, an arm across the other's shoulder - contraction of 肩を寄せる

noun:

• other intention; secret purpose; ulterior motive; ill will; fickleness; double-mindedness

noun:

• "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs - from アルバイト and salon - abbreviation

~の noun / ~する noun:

• epiphytic; designating a non-parasitic plant that grows on other plants ➜ 着生植物

expression:

• disdaining everybody; not caring an ounce about other people's feelings

noun / adjectival noun / prefix noun:

• difference (from one another); different thing; other ［こと］ - archaism

adjectival noun:

• unusual; extraordinary

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• (pieces of metal, etc. hitting each other) noisily - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• cluttered; disordered; messy - onomatopoeia

expression:

• it cannot be helped; there is no other way

noun:

• treating somebody to one delicious meal after the other

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun / ~する noun:

• being brought to a standstill; being stranded; getting stuck; stalling; deadlock
• being stumped; being in a dilemma; stopping in one's tracks; standing speechless
• dying while standing (and remaining standing); dying on one's feet

expression:

• Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism) - four character idiom

expression:

• once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake) [literal]

expression / noun:

• red string of fate; in Chinese-Japanese folklore, fated lovers were said to be joined by an unseen red string, tied around one little finger of each

noun:

• pushing something out; extrusion
• presence; appearance
• run walked in - Baseball term
• pushing one's opponent out by pressing one's hands up against them - Sumo term

noun:

• frame-by-frame playback; frame advance; frame-by-frame advance
• film drive (camera)

noun:

• talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; chat
• talk show - abbreviation ➜ トークショー
• toque

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language