noun:

• stitched side of some traditional Japanese clothing; clothing with such a stitched side ➜ 襴・闕腋
• robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials

noun:

• raised leg; lifting a leg
• upturn (in the market) ［上げ足・上足］ Antonym: 下げ足
• sitting cross-legged - archaism

noun:

• on-the-sea ballot (votes cast in a federal election by ships' crewmen and sent by fax)

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayaura divination ➜ 粥占

noun:

• main gate; front gate - obscure term
• latter half of the Lotus Sutra, which describes the nature of the Buddha - Buddhism term ➜ 迹門

expression:

• avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb

noun:

• 13th day (of the moon); the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• refusal to accept the present situation; denial of the existing situation; negation of the status quo - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句・重陽【ちょうよう】

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

noun:

• personnel; members; lineup (of a team); roster; cast (of a play)
• announcement of next day's match-ups - Sumo term

noun:

• eight-tenths
• casting someone out
• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg ➜ 鳶ズボン

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• since the era of the Emperor Jinmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented - four character idiom

noun:

• Matsuo Basho remembrance day (12th day of the 10th lunar month, associated with the change of the seasons)

expression:

• in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log - proverb

noun:

• stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; persistence
• radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily) ➜ 基【き】
• root - Mathematics term
• indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term

noun:

• the part of the eyebrows near the middle forehead; inner ends of one's eyebrows

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔