noun:

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

noun:

• refreshing breeze and the bright moon; a beautiful nocturnal scene with a full moon - four character idiom

noun:

• rope weapon with a sickle on one end and a ring on the other

expression:

• to catch a weasel asleep; to pluck out the eye of a live horse [literal] - idiom - sensitive - obsolete term

noun:

• fragmentary remains of a large set of writings; the odd volume; a few pages ➜ 端本

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

noun:

• winning techniques where the opponent is thrown without close bodily contact - Sumo term

noun:

• getting a lump in one's throat; overflowing with feelings ➜ 胸がいっぱいになる

~の noun:

• chest full of; lungs full of

noun:

• having an eye to the big picture; being aware of the general situation - four character idiom

noun:

• mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year ➜ 若水

noun:

• piece of wood supporting deeply receded eaves, esp. in temple construction

noun:

• Zen; entering the path of Zen

noun:

• young imperial prince
• child of the imperial family
• shrine dedicated to a child of the god of the main shrine ➜ 本宮
• newly built shrine (to which a divided tutelary deity has just been transferred) ➜ 勧請

noun:

• first business conducted by retailers in the New Year ➜ 初買い

noun:

• bitter enemies (placed by fate) in the same boat - four character idiom ➜ 呉越【ごえつ】

noun:

• (belief in the desirability of) education by rote learning

noun / ~する noun:

• participating in something by merely following the leaders - four character idiom

noun:

• deconstruction (as in the term coined by Jacques Derrida)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

noun:

• gallery (in a theatre); upper gallery; cheap seats; nosebleed section; the gods - four character idiom

noun:

• the dead of night; praying all night in a shrine or temple

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to proceed in a logical manner; to go through the proper channels

noun:

• head monk in charge of the administrative section of a zendo (Zen) - Buddhism term ➜ 禅堂

noun:

• jatropha (member of a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family)

noun / ~する noun:

• settlement (financial); squaring accounts; clearing debts
• liquidation
• ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)