noun:

• straggling hair; hair too short to be tied or arranged with the rest of the hair (typically around the sideburns); lovelock ➜ 後れ毛

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

noun:

• government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

ichidan verb:

• to cloud; to make dim or dull; to frown ➜ 曇らす

noun:

• the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis - four character idiom

noun:

• (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

noun:

• place to go; person to turn to or depend on; one's resort

noun:

• something; something or other; so-and-so ➜ 何とか彼とか

adverb:

• for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other

noun / ~する noun:

• bathing; washing one's body or hair; ablution
• receiving a blessing; receiving an honor

noun:

• deja vu; something already seen or experienced; feeling of having seen or experienced something at least once before - From French

noun:

• heavy rotation; frequently broadcasting or listening to the same music; frequently wearing the same outfit - abbreviation ➜ ヘビーローテーション

noun:

• short interval of leisure; short break or breather; lull

noun:

• apomictic; of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis; related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant

noun:

• a great variety of; all sorts or kinds of; multifarious - four character idiom

noun:

• heavy rotation; frequently broadcasting or listening to the same music; frequently wearing the same outfit

noun:

• bare noh chanting; vocal-only noh theater performance, with no dancing or instruments; unaccompanied utai ➜ 謡【うたい】

noun:

• pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others

noun:

• daily life; daily routine; while awake or asleep; at all times; day in, day out; constantly; the four cardinal behaviors - walking, standing, sitting and lying [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• appropriate word; apt word or expression; mot juste

noun:

• alms-giver; person who donates to a monk or a temple; dana-pati

adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may