noun / ~する noun:

• increase in the average age of marriage

noun:

• the six articles of faith (in Islam) ➜ 六信五行

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to place (in someone's custody); to entrust (someone) with; to deposit
• to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to let (someone) decide
• to lean on; to put one's weight on

noun:

• yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe) ➜ 湯帷子

noun:

• drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke
• doing something suddenly, without warning

noun:

• gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater) ➜ 義太夫

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

counter:

• counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system) - archaism

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

noun:

• curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture) ➜ 母屋【もや】・庇

noun:

• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) - Kansai dialect ➜ 体育座り

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) ➜ 体育座り【たいいくずわり】

noun:

• nine gates; winning hand consisting of one pung of 1s, one pung of 9s and one tile each of every other number, plus one more suited tile, all in the same suit - Mahjong term - From English "chi"

expression:

• a journey of a thousand miles feels like only one mile (when going to see the one you love) - proverb

noun:

• The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching ➜ 五経

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

noun:

• little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept-secret place; hole-in-the-wall

noun:

• place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑

noun:

• night where one waits for someone who is supposed to come - archaism
• night of the 14th day of the eight month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• decision of a contest; finals (in sports)

noun:

• stroke (of a racket, in swimming, etc.)

noun:

• arrangement of stones in a garden

noun:

• dilation (of a sound wave in acoustics)