noun:

• Protector General; Tang-period Chinese official in charge of the local Protectorate General ➜ 都護府
• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position) ➜ 按察使

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

expression:

• intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself; going for wool and coming home shorn; the biter bit; the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy [literal] - idiom

noun:

• reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler) - obscure term ➜ 葦切

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いけじめ］
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いけしめ
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いけしめ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise ➜ 釜を掘る
• to crash a car into the back of another (usu. used in the passive voice); to rear-end

noun:

• Goryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE) ［こうらい］ - abbreviation

noun / prefix noun:

• Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty)

noun:

• (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine ［狛］ ➜ 狛犬

noun:

• formal, usually black, kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• using a new brush for the first time
• doing something for the first time
• man losing his virginity (esp. to an older woman)

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• one face; one surface
• the whole surface
• one aspect; one side

noun / adverbial noun:

• (on) the other hand
• one broad, flat object
• front page (e.g. newspaper)

noun:

• a child; one child
• one of several children, especially the son and heir
• one stone (in the game of go) ➜ 一目【いちもく】

noun:

• sitz bath; sitting bath; bath for the lower half of the body
• lower pool (e.g. in an onsen); lower bath

noun:

• this world; this life
• the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.) - colloquialism
• this corrupt world; present world - Buddhism term

noun:

• part; section
• part of the body; affected part (of the body)

~の noun:

• local (e.g. anesthesia); topical

noun:

• private parts; genitals

noun:

• getting ready to go out in the snow; clothing for going out in the snow; snow gear - obscure term

godan ~つ verb:

• to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; to let loose a tiger in the marketplace [literal] - idiom

pronoun:

• such and such (when being vague, placeholder, etc.); this and that

interjection:

• What?; What is the matter?; What are the items?

prefix noun:

• the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former
• pre- (e.g. "premodern") - before the name of an era

~の noun / noun:

• before; earlier ➜ 前【まえ】

noun:

• Northern Di people; northern barbarians; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non- ethnic Chinese to the north - archaism - derogatory term

noun:

• Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia); grass-mowing sword ➜ 天叢雲剣

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a spectacular photograph (often of the female form); taking a photo at just the right moment - colloquialism

noun:

• powerful photograph; intense photograph

noun:

• great longitudinal fissure; longitudinal cerebral fissure; longitudinal fissure; interhemispheric fissure; fissura longitudinalis cerebri; groove that separates the two hemispheres of the brain