expression:

• when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham's Law) - proverb ➜ グレシャムの法則

noun:

• tub-thumping preacher; preacher (priest) who is good at delivering a sermon; pulpiteer (usually with contemptuous implication) - four character idiom

expression:

• all people aren't evil; don't distrust everyone; there is kindness to be found everywhere - proverb

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; what is a paradise on hearsay maybe a hell at sight [literal] - proverb

noun:

• incapacitated rape; sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

noun:

• flower lantern; Bon festival lantern that is decorated with artificial flowers or has a floral pattern ➜ 盆灯籠

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - From English "recruit love"

noun:

• paid volunteer work (e.g. on a farm); work which is not done primarily to earn money - from ボランティア and アルバイト - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching the winning post; reaching the finish; making the goal - From English "goal in"
• getting married - colloquialism

adverbial noun / noun:

• all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land - four character idiom

noun:

• the Twenty-Two Shrines; the 22 most important Shinto shrines, as designated during the Heian period - Shintō term

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

noun:

• ship of the dead which appears if you go fishing the night of the Bon festival ➜ お盆

noun:

• lingering snow ➜ 残雪
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• lingering snow
• snowfall at the end of the winter or the beginning of spring

noun:

• hemp rope fastened from the bow of a Japanese ship to the tip of the mast ➜ 筈

noun:

• arriving at the final stop (of a bus, train, etc.); reaching the end of the line

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a hard time of it; to have a bitter experience

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to tell a person (something) emphatically; to let a person have it

noun:

• wind blowing on the day of the Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (15th day of the 2nd month) - Buddhism term

expression / adjective:

• I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; I feel regretful; I feel guilty
• thank you very much (for help, etc.)

noun:

• alarm clock - abbreviation ➜ 目覚まし時計【めざましどけい】
• waking up; keeping oneself awake
• type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap ➜ お目覚

expression:

• having one's good intentions backfire dangerously; causing harm when trying to prevent it; trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling [literal] - idiom