noun:

• benefiting from the influence of a master or parent

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out - four character idiom
• throwing a ball as hard as one can - Baseball term

noun:

• at the height (peak) of one's popularity - four character idiom

noun:

• Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003) ➜ 有志連合

noun:

• way of constructing

noun:

• head of a household

noun:

• morning of the New Year ➜ 元朝【がんちょう】

noun:

• an annual (plant)

noun:

• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare - abbreviation ➜ 厚生労働省

noun:

• the strength of ten

expression:

• nothing to be afraid of; trivial; not amounting to much; can't do anything

noun:

• the three kilesas that poison the heart of man (greed, hatred and delusion) - from 貪欲, 瞋恚 and 愚痴 - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩・三毒

expression:

• today of all days

noun:

• place on bridge passageway next to the rear of a noh stage - where the interlude kyogen actors wait ➜ 間狂言

noun:

• principle of duality

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of the cicadas - onomatopoeia ➜ みんみん蝉【みんみんぜみ】

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:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• head of fisherman's group or union

noun / ~の noun:

• benighted lands outside of imperial influence ➜ 化内

noun:

• extension of women's rights

noun / ~する noun:

• substitute for an another

noun:

• different type of business; different occupation

noun:

• ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival) ➜ 霊祭【れいさい】・盂蘭盆

noun:

• point of presence; POP - IT term