noun:

• gait; manner of walking; footwork (e.g. in sport)
• characteristic way of moving, keeping the center of gravity low (centre) - Sumo term

noun:

• Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age) ➜ 五奉行

noun:

• Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider) ［土蜘蛛］ ➜ 地蜘蛛
• tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• leaping; activity
• leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic)
• making great strides; making rapid progress
• emerging
• becoming active; playing an active part

noun:

• spirits of war dead
• person of great ability; soul of a talented person

noun:

• lei (garland of flowers) - From Hawaiian
• lei (plural of leu; currency of Rumania and Moldova) - From or ➜ レウ

noun:

• unit of weight ~600g - archaism
• pound (unit of mass: 453.6g) - archaism

noun / counter:

• loaf (of bread)

adjectival noun / noun:

• lack of refinement; inelegance; want of artistic taste; lack of poetic sense ➜ 没風流

noun:

• Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

noun:

• final paragraph; final paragraphs; the end of a story of block of text

noun:

• awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• gently sloping mountain (of the less rugged mountain of a pair of mountains) ➜ 男山

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

noun:

• stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation

noun:

• lowness (of degree, value, etc.); inferiority
• second volume (of two); third volume (of three) Antonym: 上【じょう】 ➜ 下巻

noun:

• (a) touch of; tinge of; wreath (e.g. of smoke)
• one stroke; one brush

noun:

• core
• tang (of a sword, etc.)
• middle of a nest of boxes ➜ 入れ子

noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

noun:

• chairman of executive council (usu. of a party); chairman of the general affairs committee

noun:

• standard datum of geographic coordinates; point of origin of longitude and latitude; geodetic datum