noun:

• pad placed below the sheet on which a seal is to be pressed - used to make the seal's imprint clearer

noun:

• first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
• initial share price during a public offering

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅

noun:

• general policy speech; speech held by the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of a special or extraordinary Diet session

noun / ~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• tinkling sound (esp. bell on the Emperor's carriage); bright sound of metal being struck - archaism

noun:

• cry of the phoenix - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to change; to swap; to substitute; to transfer
• to change the object of one's interest or focus
• to spend or take time
• to infect ➜ 風邪を移す
• to permeate something with the smell or colour of something
• to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.) ➜ 実行に移す

noun:

• service at the head office; work at the home office ➜ 詰め【つめ】

noun:

• surface of the water; face of the water ➜ 水面【すいめん】

suffix:

• seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of

noun:

• the (one's) best pupil; the (one's) top disciple

expression / noun:

• sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current

noun:

• both labor and management; both the workers and the employers - four character idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to lay the blame on; to put the fault on

noun:

• the seven forms of Avalokitesvara ➜ 観世音
• the seven Avalokitesvaras of Kyoto

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to shame the name (of); to blot the reputation (of)

expression:

• the first sign of bad luck; the first bad omen ➜ けちをつける

noun:

• counting the revenues and expenditures; counting the gains and losses

noun:

• crow cawing in the morning; crows crying in the morning - obscure term ➜ 明け烏

expression:

• the customer is always right; the customer is king

noun:

• way; path; route; along the way; along the road ➜ 途次

noun / ~する noun:

• playing the victim; playing the victim card

noun / ~する noun:

• tide watching (esp. in the Naruto Strait); watching the tide ➜ 鳴門【なると】

~の noun:

• towards the Soviet Union; with the Soviet Union

noun:

• sky; the air; the heavens
• weather
• far-off place; distant place
• state of mind; feeling - often as 〜空もない
• (from) memory; (by) heart - usu. as 空で
• falsehood; lie

prefix noun:

• somehow; vaguely - before an adjective
• fake - before a noun or a verb

noun:

• dojo (hall used for martial arts training)
• manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 菩提道場