noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun / ~する noun:

• succession of victories - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• repaying a kindness; gratitude

noun:

• cheap, easily put together cupboard, bookcase, shelves, chest, etc. made of colored plywood - From English "color box"

noun:

• world of ideas

noun:

• head of personnel department

noun:

• mounting for a scroll

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to develop into a serious incident

expression:

• there is a great difference between being told about something and actually seeing it with your own eyes - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• making a country prosperous; prosperous country
• Kōkoku era (of the Southern Court) (1340.4.28-1346.12.8)

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• box set at a gate of a home or near the front door, used for receiving deliveries of newspapers, mail, milk, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• asking or putting a question; questioning

noun:

• long period of time

noun:

• line of demarcation

noun:

• land of everlasting summer

noun:

• Law Concerning the Promotion of Specific Non-Profit Organization Activities (1998); the NPO Law ➜ ＮＰＯ法

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• a great man dies; a great star falls [literal]

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

expression:

• in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu); being imperturbable; immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)

noun:

• present holder of an office

noun:

• (at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year

expression / noun:

• one's only good set of clothes (suit, kimono, etc.) - obscure term ➜ 一帳羅【いっちょうら】

noun:

• flesh of a blueback fish ➜ 青魚【あおざかな】

expression:

• before the end of this year