noun:

• old Japanese system of weights and measures

noun:

• theories of Japanese cultural or racial uniqueness

noun:

• traditional style of Japanese residential architecture

noun:

• (Japanese) Protection of Personal Liberty Law (1948)

noun:

• scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture

noun:

• full Japanese court dress of traditional fashion - four character idiom

noun:

• go-slow tactics (of Japanese railway workers) - four character idiom

noun:

• round collar (of traditional Japanese clothing)

noun:

• fudegaki (variety of sweet Japanese persimmon)

noun:

• Japanese bush warbler; messenger of spring [literal] ➜ 鶯

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• Ten Bulls (ten stages of the herding of an ox, used as an analogy for training the mind on the path to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Yamataikoku; historical Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period

noun:

• Ming & Xing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war) ➜ 清楽・明楽

noun:

• open three-of-a-kind (meld); three-of-a-kind made with a tile called from another player - Mahjong term ➜ 刻子・明刻子

noun / ~する noun:

• trifling with; toying with; playing with; making sport of; making fun of; leading around by the nose
• tossing about (a ship)

expression:

• a wise man changes his mind, a fool never; the wise adapt themselves to changed circumstances - proverb ➜ 君子豹変【くんしひょうへん】
• the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor - proverb - colloquialism

noun:

• scorpionfly (esp. the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica); scorpion fly

noun:

• Taiwan Expedition (punitive expedition by the Japanese military forces; 1874)

noun:

• a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section; a tune; note; strain; measure

noun:

• raised tatami-floored seating area (usu. in a Japanese restaurant); small separate dining room

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
• to flatter; to butter up

noun:

• tally; check; piece of wood or paper split in half and given to each party as a form of proof (e.g. of a transaction)

noun:

• rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance ➜ 大手【おおて】
• one who arrests
• force attacking the rear of a castle ➜ 大手【おおて】
• (opponent's) weak point