noun:

• stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• paper fan used in slapstick comedy ➜ 張り扇

noun:

• living in seclusion; retired from the world - four character idiom

noun:

• loach or eel dipped and broiled in soy-based sauce

noun:

• ductal carcinoma in situ; DCIS

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be shrouded in mist

noun:

• the matter in question; the aforesaid matter

noun:

• arrangement of stones in a garden ➜ 石組み

noun:

• small gate in a mud or stone wall ➜ 穴門【あなもん】

noun:

• poems inscribed beside the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara

noun:

• days of the month ending in 5 or 0 (when payments are often due)

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing oneself in life; success in life

noun:

• mother-in-law

expression:

• denominated in Chinese Yuan; denominated in renminbi

noun:

• movie in which ... has the starring role

noun:

• kanji in which one element suggests the meaning, the other the pronunciation

noun:

• truth in lending act

noun:

• display of a champion in the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• parents-in-law

expression / adverb:

• in all; in total; collectively - esp. 合わせて, 合せて

expression / conjunction:

• in addition; besides; at the same time - esp. 併せて

adverb:

• in general; on the whole; for the most part; by and large; almost all

noun:

• sake sold in a cup rather than a bottle; drinking sake from a regular-size cup rather than from a small sake cup

noun:

• the four tones in old Chinese phonetics

noun / ~する noun:

• dying in prison