expression / godan ~す verb:

• to meet the requirements; to satisfy the conditions

noun:

• inscription on the bathtub of King Tang ("If you can renovate yourself one day, then you can do so every day, and keep doing so day after day.")

expression:

• on the other hand

noun:

• the art of classical Japanese poetry ➜ 和歌

noun:

• always saying the wrong thing

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; reading the nenbutsu into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 念仏

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

noun:

• ridge-end tile with the figure of a Shachihoko (e.g. on a castle)

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

expression:

• approximately the same

noun:

• hachimaki tied in the back

noun:

• execution by decapitation, followed by public display of the body (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses

expression:

• the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well - proverb

expression / noun:

• the oppressed; downtrodden people

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

noun:

• rapid pace at which the information technology field moves - From English "dog year"
• dog's ear ➜ ドッグイヤ

noun:

• suffering from the heat; heatstroke; heat prostration - obscure term ➜ 暑気中り

noun:

• existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning - obscure term - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• school for the deaf

expression / noun:

• playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• center of the earth; centre of the earth

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to hit the nail on the head; to guess exactly right

noun:

• the Four Books (Confucian texts)