expression / noun:

• negation of the negation (in the Hegelian dialectic)

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush; position of the arm used for a particular type of calligraphy

noun / ~の noun:

• Brahman (priest of Hinduism, members of the highest caste) - From Sanskrit "brahmana"
• Brahmanism; priest of Brahmanism

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald
• leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade ➜ 反台鉋

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• raising the curtain Antonym: 閉幕【へいまく】

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (of an event); start of a season Antonym: 閉幕【へいまく】

noun:

• impression of a seal over the joint of two papers; tally

expression / noun:

• six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference - idiom

noun:

• creditor; lender; credit side (of the ledger) ➜ 借り方
• method of lending

noun:

• hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)

noun:

• compendium of laws; statute books; complete book of the Six Codes [literal]

noun:

• font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun:

• young of sardines; whitebait
• fry of the Japanese anchovy, eel, etc. ➜ 片口鰯・真鰯・鰻

noun:

• Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

noun:

• sensibilities (feelings, way of thinking) of the common people; popular sentiment - four character idiom

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction