noun:

• (over) a great distance; (a long journey (flight, voyage)) to (from) a faraway place - four character idiom

noun:

• bright red table grape, a cross between a Flame Tokay and a Neo Muscat

noun:

• earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)

expression:

• enough is enough; no further!

noun:

• decorating the alcove of a tea room with a hanging scroll and flowers (in more formal tea ceremonies, during only the first and second half respectively)
• style of decorating a traditional Japanese room (esp. a study) in which incense, a pair of vases and a pair of candlesticks are placed on a table in front of a trio of hanging scrolls - orig. meaning

noun:

• small knife that is largely ornamental or used to cut open letters and the like ➜ 小刀

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

expression:

• having been told something so often that one is fed up with it - abbreviation - idiom - colloquialism ➜ 耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】

noun:

• Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider) ［土蜘蛛］ ➜ 地蜘蛛
• tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• young person acting like an old person
• officials who helped the council of elders during the Edo period ➜ 老中

noun:

• someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel

noun:

• (person who has the) hands of God; master; virtuoso

noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

noun:

• unauthorized travel; riding without a valid ticket (e.g. on a train); stealing a ride

noun:

• false start of a bout - Sumo term
• backsies (called when taking back a move in a game)

noun / ~する noun:

• caricaturing
• turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something ➜ 漫画

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to win every battle (that is fought); to be ever victorious - obscure term

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

expression:

• love is blind; (when in love) even pockmarks are dimples [literal] - proverb

noun:

• someone whose state is slightly poorer than regular poverty ➜ ビンベスト・貧乏
• 2nd degree poverty

expression:

• good wine makes good blood; sake is the best of all medicines - proverb

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• independent city; city that is not part of another local government entity

noun:

• insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice color