noun:

• popular music; common people's music (as opposed to court music) Antonym: 雅楽

adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest

adjectival noun / noun:

• overly polite; excessively polite; polite to a fault

expression:

• being inferior to; being no match for Antonym: 如く【しく】 ➜ 百聞は一見に如かず
• being best ➜ 三十六計逃げるに如かず

expression / godan ~す verb:

• eyes sparkling; with shining eyes; for one's eyes to gleam - usu. 目を輝かせる, etc.

noun:

• (insect) pest; insect carrying disease germs; insect causing damage to crops

expression / noun:

• room that is forbidden to enter; locked room; unopened room

noun:

• compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)

noun:

• outer two ribs of a folding fan (i.e. the thick ribs, one at each end)
• outer frame of a lattice door

expression:

• the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction - four character idiom

expression:

• the die is cast; there is no going back; point of no return; alea iacta est; alea jacta est

noun:

• higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox) ➜ 江戸彼岸
• double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) - colloquialism ➜ 江戸彼岸

noun:

• embouchure; position and use of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument - From French
• mouthpiece of a musical instrument

noun:

• without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

noun:

• cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding

noun / ~する noun:

• appearing on the cover of a magazine

noun:

• equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held)
• Buddhist services during the equinoctial week - abbreviation ➜ 彼岸会
• nirvana - Buddhism term ➜ 此岸

noun:

• one's old school or university; alma mater; the school or university one attended

expression:

• from one's side; from the side (of something)
• from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved ➜ 横から口を挟む

noun:

• one's support (power) base; the base of one's support in an electorate - four character idiom

expression:

• like looking out on an abyss; like standing on the edge of an abyss

noun:

• snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus spp., esp. the golden snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus roxellana) ➜ 金糸猴

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• after-; post-; ex-; after the fact; ex post ➜ 事前

adverb:

• day by day; by the day
• daily; every day - archaism

adverb:

• day by day; every day; by the day

noun:

• jack-in-the-box; jack-in-a-box