noun:

• dejected loser; dog that has lost a fight (with its tail between its legs) [literal]
• unmarried woman (with no children) over the age of 30 - slang - derogatory term ➜ お一人様【おひとりさま】

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

noun:

• conditions of a location; suitability of a location; convenience of a location

noun:

• Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912 CE)

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger ➜ 双鉤法

noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun / ~の noun:

• full of wiles and tricks; match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster; shrewdly avoiding the opponent's strong points and attacking its weaknesses - four character idiom

noun:

• discrimination between right and wrong; distinction between good and bad ➜ 正邪の区別

noun / ~する noun:

• going in and out; entering and exiting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• visiting regularly; frequenting; having regular dealings with

noun:

• income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings
• increase and decrease; surplus and deficit; fluctuation
• fight; trouble; quarrel; dispute
• indentations (e.g. of a coastline)

noun:

• vajra (indestructible substance); diamond; adamantine
• thunderbolt; Indra's weapon; Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth

expression:

• between the pages of a book
• between two books

noun:

• Columbian exchange; widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds

noun:

• mask squeeze; unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

expression:

• a fight between equally great opponents - idiom

noun:

• trifling (fight); (a conflict) between small countries - four character idiom

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

noun:

• reporting location; interview location; field interview; on-the-scene coverage

noun:

• great and splendid land (of Yamato)
• spiritual center of the land; one's spiritual home
• excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• game or series of games between the first and second place teams - Sports term

noun:

• file wrapper for a patent; correspondence about the status of a patent between the inventor and the patent office

noun:

• ryūsha; spherical part of a pagoda finial between the hōju and suien

noun:

• interpenetration of spirit between the poet and nature in a haiku