noun:

• the people; the public; the world

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)

noun:

• Yellow Cab - trademark
• Japanese woman who readily sleeps with foreign men (sometimes a stereotype of all Japanese women) - slang

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun / ~の noun:

• half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary

noun / ~する noun:

• replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new - four character idiom

noun:

• (someone with a) sweet tooth; person fond of sweets; person who doesn't like alcohol, preferring sweets ➜ 辛党

noun:

• stringing a bow; person who strings bows
• crescent moon - abbreviation ➜ 弓張り月
• paper lantern with a bow-shaped handle - abbreviation ➜ 弓張り提灯

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for one who goes second; Being slow to take action inevitably leads to defeat - four character idiom

adverb:

• completely; absolutely; totally ➜ 一向に
• (not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least - in a negative sentence
• earnestly; intently; determinedly

noun:

• Jōdo Shinshū - abbreviation ➜ 一向宗

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - idiom ➜ 門前雀羅【もんぜんじゃくら】

noun / ~する noun:

• erection when waking in the morning; nocturnal penile tumescence; morning glory; morning wood
• early morning departure

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

expression / noun:

• skill learned in one's former days; using one's experience from the past - idiom

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths