expression / ~よい adjective:

• quick on the uptake; perceptive; intuitive ➜ 勘の良い【かんのよい】

noun:

• the Occident; the West

noun:

• power behind the throne; éminence grise; kingmaker; wire-puller; shadow shogun [literal]

noun:

• Law for the Protection of Personal Data Held by Administrative Organs (2003)

noun:

• liquid air

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

noun:

• pounding the edges of planks of wood to join them

noun:

• copying calligraphy without sticking to the model (calligraphy); copying freely ➜ 臨書

noun:

• the week after the following week; two weeks later; two weeks after that

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to lament the end of spring

noun:

• on the way here - usu. adverbially as 来がけに ➜ 行き掛け

noun:

• clerk at the information desk

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation ➜ 印地打ち

noun:

• First Epistle to the Thessalonians (book of the Bible)

noun:

• the emperor's thoughts

noun:

• ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and carapaces ➜ 甲骨文字

noun / ~する noun:

• dispatching to the US; despatching to the US

noun:

• pay by the hour (parking)

noun:

• evils of the times

expression:

• the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small - proverb

noun:

• (metaphorically) floating with the tide - four character idiom

noun:

• The Netherlands; Holland ➜ 和蘭【オランダ】

noun:

• back pain due to the cold accompanying a snowfall

noun:

• the masses; people

noun / ~する noun:

• direct report to the throne