expression:

• a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - proverb ➜ 千里の行も足下に始まる

noun:

• a fall below a certain level (of a stock price, etc.) Antonym: 台替わり【だいがわり】 ➜ 台

noun:

• massage and possibly sexual services performed by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform - slang ➜ ｊｋ【ジェイケイ】・リフレ

noun:

• texture; grain
• one's skin (lacking makeup, etc.); natural skin; bare skin; scalp
• surface of the earth; bare ground
• surface of a sword blade

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• warm and fluffy; soft - onomatopoeia
• steamy hot (food); hot and flaky

expression:

• feeling mentally tired; feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance - Kansai dialect

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry of local warlords; a number of powerful (talented, influential) persons standing by themselves in a given field - four character idiom

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the will of the governing to the governed; top-down (system) - four character idiom

noun:

• "before the spirit of the deceased" (written on the condolence-money envelope)

noun:

• waist (the part of the pants located above the crotch); pant rise

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• stomach (esp. a pig's stomach or a cow's rumen); pork stomach - perhaps from the English word "gut" - Food term

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• removal (e.g. of a building); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (e.g. a stage set)
• withdrawal (of troops); evacuation; retreating

noun / ~する noun:

• a rise above a certain level (of a stock price, etc.) Antonym: 台割れ

noun:

• crime of plotting a crime; crime of preparing to commit an offense; preparation of a crime - Law term

noun:

• Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

noun:

• free markets and open guilds - abbreviation ➜ 楽市楽座
• way of sitting on the ground with the sole of both feet pressed together

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代