expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜に烏

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜の烏

expression:

• a disgrace (to a whole group of people)

noun:

• wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman

noun:

• a spring that gushes forth from a valley

expression / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• just now; a little while back; a short time ago

noun:

• pot with a bail for a handle ➜ 鍋

expression:

• A wise man changes his mind, a fool never - proverb

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to span (e.g. a stream with a bridge)

noun / ~する noun:

• rough sketch used as a guideline for a picture ➜ 下書き

noun:

• dress worn by a geisha to a zashiki party ➜ 座敷

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to start (e.g. a scene, a war, etc.) ➜ 幕を切る

noun:

• frog in a well; "someone with a narrow perspective" [figurative]

noun:

• prize for a single stage of a relay race

noun:

• sludge from sharpening a sword, etc. on a grindstone

noun:

• ceremony for moving a deity to a new site - Shintō term ➜ 遷座【せんざ】・遷宮祭【せんぐうさい】

noun:

• hill in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)

~と adverb:

• with a grin; showing a devilish smile - onomatopoeia ➜ にたり

noun:

• name post outside a shrine (usu. a stone pillar)

noun:

• candy-coated fruit (usu. a plum) on a stick ➜ りんご飴【りんごあめ】

expression:

• eyes of a predator; keen eyes; eyes of a cormorant, eyes of a hawk [literal] - idiom

expression:

• it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that... ➜ 訳【わけ】

expression:

• so miserable that it is painful to look at; can't bear to look at; painful to watch - idiom

expression:

• a jewel in a dunghill

noun / ~の noun:

• a bundle; a hundred