noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• inflammation of the prostate

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the month; mid-month

noun:

• the Japanese reading of a kanji

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)

noun:

• announcing the succession to another's stage name ➜ 襲名披露

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

noun:

• moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra ➜ 月宮殿

noun:

• 35th of the sexagenary cycle

noun:

• the four inauspicious beasts from Chinese mythology ➜ 四霊

noun:

• area of the field one is supposed to (or able to) defend - Sports term
• (one's) field; (one's) scope; area of expertise; range of topics one can converse about; breadth of one's interests and knowledge
• one's type; kind of person one is attracted to

expression:

• How can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); Only a hero can understand a hero - four character idiom

noun:

• the same country

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• selecting an auspicious date by looking at the astrological information on the calendar; date selected in such a manner

expression:

• in the middle of something; busy with something
• in commotion as a result of something untoward happening
• currently importing or capturing data

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• the assigned equation - used in mathematics to avoid writing out the original equation again in full - Mathematics term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

noun:

• picture of the world; world picture; image of the world; Weltbild

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make the sign of the cross; to bless oneself; to cross oneself

noun:

• doing twice the work; duplication of work

noun:

• famous bathhouse with prostitutes from the early Edo period