expression:

• if you are so inclined; if it suits you; if you like ➜ 何だったら

expression:

• if you are so inclined; if it suits you; if you like ➜ 何なら

noun / ~する noun:

• failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
• falling short of the standard; not making the grade

noun:

• address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)

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:

• what you see is what you get; WYSIWYG - IT term

expression:

• a foster parent is dearer than a real parent - proverb

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• what is called; what they call; so-called

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• strong local wind blowing around the Hira mountains in Shiga prefecture (sinks boats on the lake and stops trains of the Kosei Line)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think
• to lord it over; to have great influence

noun:

• being attracted by physical looks only; person who is only interested in looks

noun:

• round meat; meat from a pig's thigh (from which ham is made)

noun:

• focus of one's attention; what one is looking for; point of view; viewpoint

noun:

• safety myth; myth that something is completely safe (e.g. nuclear plant); safety dogma

noun:

• industry law; law regulating a certain industry
• work one is obligated to carry out - archaism

noun:

• one chance; only opportunity - abbreviation ➜ ワンチャンス
• maybe; perhaps; there is a chance that - slang
• one-night stand - slang

~の noun / noun:

• ordinary; common; usual
• free of charge - only 只
• unaffected; as is; safe - usu. as ただでは...

adverb:

• only; merely; just; simply

conjunction:

• but; however; nevertheless - esp. 但

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out - four character idiom
• throwing a ball as hard as one can - Baseball term

noun:

• (on the) road; (on the) way; (in the) street