Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper

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ゆうれいのしょうたいみたりかれおばなyuureinoshoutaimitarikareobana

expression:

  • if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]
おやといがいこくじんoyatoigaikokujin

noun:

  • hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era
かちょうふうえいkachoufuuei

expression:

  • the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom 花鳥風月
おんるonruえんるenru

noun:

  • banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system
しらぬはていしゅばかりなりshiranuhateishubakarinari

expression:

  • the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom
しらすばしごshirasubashigo

noun:

  • stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage 白洲
よもすえyomosue

expression:

  • the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age
えきしんekishin

noun:

  • immersion; dipping; in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture; in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution
こまつひきkomatsuhiki

noun:

  • collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) 子の日の遊び
あさのなかのよもぎasanonakanoyomogi

expression:

  • if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field
きたkita

noun:

  • north
  • the North; northern territories
  • North Korea - abbreviation
  • north wind - archaism

funehaまっすぐmassugukitani向かっているmukatteiru The ship is bearing due north.

kitanokuniからkaraha北海道hokkaidou富良野furanoshiwo舞台butainiしたshitaフジテレビジョンFUJITEREBIJON制作seisakunoテレビドラマTEREBIDORAMA "From the North Country" is a TV drama produced by Fuji TV and set in Furano in Hokkaido.

ぼうようほろうbouyouhorou

noun:

  • locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost [literal] - four character idiom
せっちんでまんじゅうsetchindemanjuuせんちでまんじゅうsenchidemanjuu

expression:

  • if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter; manjū in the toilet [literal] - proverb まんじゅう
  • hiding something good for oneself alone - idiom
かねのくさりもひけばきれるkanenokusarimohikebakireru

expression:

  • even the strong-willed fall into temptation - proverb
  • there's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it - proverb
コーナーワークKOONAAWAAKUコーナー・ワークKOONAA/WAAKU

noun:

  • working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
  • cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)
それはそれでsorehasorede

expression:

  • in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case
ゆきおろしyukioroshi Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • wind blowing snow down a mountain
  • removing snow from the roof of a house

屋根yaneno雪おろしyukioroshiwoshiなくてはいけないnakutehaikenai We have to clear the snow off the roof.

えいらくせんeirakusen

noun:

  • Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)
さんむしゅぎsanmushugi

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
そんだいごsondaigo

noun:

  • speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language
しんそうきゅうめいshinsoukyuumei

noun:

  • probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom
こくらがりkokuragari

noun:

  • dimness; dimly lit place
なければnakereba

expression:

suffix:

  • unless one ...; if one does not ... ない
かみかぜkamikazeしんぷうshinpuuかむかぜkamukaze

noun:

  • divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)
  • kamikaze かみかぜ
くしのはがかけたようkushinohagakaketayou

expression:

  • missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]

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