noun:

• forced reduction of a daimyo's land by the Edo Shogunate; curtailment of a daimyo's domain - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a decision by using a circular letter; reaching a decision via a document circulated to all employees

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)

noun:

• forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 加槓・槓

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service - archaism

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service ➜ 恩地

noun:

• festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3
• lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3

noun / ~する noun:

• scraping together (a sum of money); raising (a sum of money) by straining one's credit - four character idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to take offense (at); to take offence (at); to feel hurt (by)

noun:

• brightness of snow; reflected light of snow; (by) snow light

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season - four character idiom

noun:

• Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s

expression / noun:

• the Four Freedoms (as defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear)

noun:

• heliox; gas mixture of helium and oxygen; often hypoxic gas mix used by divers; medical gas used for its low density and easy breathing

noun:

• Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen) - called けいさく in Rinzai Zen, きょうさく in Soto Zen - abbreviation ➜ 警覚策励・座禅
• horsewhip ［けいさく］

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

noun:

• standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm) ➜ 田舎間
• Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm) ➜ 田舎間

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

ichidan verb:

• to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be divisible (by); to be divided without residue (remainder)
• to be satisfied; to be convinced - usu. used in the negative ➜ 割り切れない

noun:

• being carried away by a current
• drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river
• cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise

noun:

• on the bank of; by the side of (e.g. a river, pond) - esp. ほとり
• (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby

suffix noun:

• around (Sunday, last year, etc...) ［あたり］
• for instance ［あたり］

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan