noun:

• at the outset; at the very beginning; in the first place; to begin (start) with; first and foremost - four character idiom

noun:

• Matsuo Basho remembrance day (12th day of the 10th lunar month, associated with the change of the seasons)

noun:

• making use of the surrounding landscape as a part of the design of a garden; natural scenery used as the background in the landscaping of a garden

noun:

• man who is easily compelled into giving a woman gifts; man only used to receive gifts from - slang ➜ 貢ぐ

noun:

• method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism - Buddhism term

noun:

• man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; herbivore [literal]

noun:

• generation; lifetime
• the age; the day

noun / suffix noun:

• the First - after the name of a king, etc.

noun:

• issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

noun:

• the part of the eyebrows near the middle forehead; inner ends of one's eyebrows

noun:

• water and moon
• the moon reflected on the water
• pit of the stomach; solar plexus ➜ 水落

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun / ~の noun:

• one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction; the other direction; one side; the other side; one party; the other party

conjunction:

• on the other hand ➜ 一方【いっぽう】

noun:

• somebody who has wild fantasies; someone who hears voices; someone who is crazy

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be equal; to ostentatiously display that one is equal (to) - colloquialism ➜ ため

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be equal; to ostentatiously display that one is equal (to) - colloquialism ➜ ため・タメを張る

noun:

• ice color; insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice dye ➜ 氷染染料

noun:

• way of hearing; way a spoken statement is taken; way of asking

noun:

• strong person; person putting on a brave front - after the name of a 12th-century warrior monk
• bamboo tube with holes drilled in it (used as a stand for kitchen utensils, fans, etc.)
• checks; plaid; checked pattern - abbreviation ➜ 弁慶縞

noun:

• thank God it's Friday; TGIF; going out on Friday night; flowery Friday (when young men et al. stay out late) [literal] - from 花の金曜日

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)

noun:

• kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards) - archaism
• (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu ➜ 布衣【ほい】

noun:

• Chlamydoselachus (genus containing only the frilled shark and the Southern African frilled shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae)