expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

noun:

• Maru-ship; Japanese ship (because Japanese ship names often end in Maru)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit - onomatopoeia
• irritatedly; impatiently - onomatopoeia
• scorchingly (of the sun) - onomatopoeia
• sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil) - onomatopoeia
• sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc. - onomatopoeia
• oozing out (oil, sweat, etc.); seeping out - onomatopoeia

expression:

• a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - proverb ➜ 千里の道も一歩から

expression:

• a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - proverb ➜ 千里の行も足下に始まる

noun:

• a fall below a certain level (of a stock price, etc.) Antonym: 台替わり【だいがわり】 ➜ 台

noun:

• texture; grain
• one's skin (lacking makeup, etc.); natural skin; bare skin; scalp
• surface of the earth; bare ground
• surface of a sword blade

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field - four character idiom

noun:

• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• "before the spirit of the deceased" (written on the condolence-money envelope)

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• removal (e.g. of a building); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (e.g. a stage set)
• withdrawal (of troops); evacuation; retreating

noun / ~の noun:

• right under; directly below

noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• directly under

noun / ~する noun:

• falling perpendicularly

noun:

• abdomen; stomach; under parts

noun:

• minor; person under age