noun:

• confidential report to the ruler of the country of astronomical events and their astrological interpretation - archaism

expression:

• fight fire with fire; set a thief to catch a thief; fight one evil with another - idiom

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

noun:

• education of the head and hand and heart

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)

noun:

• idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater) - From Latin "idola"

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

noun:

• seat
• location (of a gathering, etc.); place
• position; post

noun:

• location (of something); whereabouts; hiding place

adverb:

• between the waves; in the waves; on the waves; behind the waves; beneath the waves ➜ 波間【なみま】

noun / ~する noun:

• seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be experienced in the ways of the world; to taste the bitter and the sweet

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold (the opponent) in the arms and carry him out of the ring

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on the brink of
• morning and evening; day and night

adjectival noun:

• ugly and creepy (combination of the words busaiku and kimoi) - slang ➜ キモい

noun:

• university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• cross between a mallard and domestic duck

noun:

• friendly relations between Japan and Israel

noun / ~の noun:

• within a marriage; between husband and wife; conjugal

noun:

• low uplands; intermediary area between plains and mountains

noun:

• man between 61 and 65 (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• 1962 trade agreement between Japan and China