noun:

• platform in front of a temple's principal image, from which the officiating monk chants - Buddhism term

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaw of death - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation; legend; folk tale - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• delivering from sin; succor; succour

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

noun:

• indoor bath using water from a hot-spring

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

adjectival noun:

• formed from a stem

noun:

• miso from the Kamakura era - obscure term

noun:

• average amount from one customer

noun / ~する noun:

• standing out from the crowd; dominating; rising abruptly - archaism
• towering high - archaism

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to fire from a job

noun:

• fragments from the old literary work kept at Koyasan

noun:

• desalting (drawing salt) from salted food; salt used for desalting

noun:

• strong awamori (60%) from Yonaguni Island, Okinawa ➜ 泡盛【あわもり】

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 移り箸

noun:

• salted and fermented fish sauce from Akita ➜ 魚醤油

expression:

• from one's side; from the side (of something)
• from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved ➜ 横から口を挟む

noun:

• a spring that gushes forth from a valley

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あいの風

noun:

• betrothal money given from woman to man ➜ 御帯料

noun:

• liquid seasoning made from leaf vegetables mixed with sake, mirin, sugar, etc. - Food term

noun:

• discharge water from a dam

adverbial noun:

• from now on ➜ 今後