noun:

• Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is ➜ 先勝【せんしょう】・友引【ともびき】・先負【せんぶ】・仏滅【ぶつめつ】・大安【たいあん】・赤口【しゃっこう】

noun:

• residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

noun:

• winning technique where the opponent is lifted out by his belt - Sumo term

noun:

• retirement ceremony of a wrestler where his top-knot is cut - Sumo term

expression:

• 10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone - Sumo term

noun:

• breaking into cold sweat when one is very embarrassed or scared - four character idiom

expression:

• Happy events are often accompanied by difficulties; Unsullied joy is rare - four character idiom

noun:

• state of fine weather where one is subject to direct sunlight

noun:

• Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is ➜ 六曜

expression:

• poor speakers make long speeches; brevity is the soul of wit - proverb

noun:

• somebody who is bad at horse-riding
• a fidgety, restless person

noun:

• wait (until one is given permission)
• postponement; putting on hold

noun:

• Cetorhinidae; family whose only member is the basking shark

noun:

• female bedmate (whose body is likened to a fleshy cushion) - archaism

expression / noun:

• useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to cut loose; to act without restraint; to throw off all inhibitions; to go wild

interjection:

• no

prefix noun:

• no; without; not needed; not allowed

noun:

• organic farming; organic cultivation; farming without pesticides ➜ 有機農業

noun:

• rectangular bugaku mask made of thick paper and white silk with facial features drawn on it ➜ 舞楽

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

godan ~す verb:

• to leave on; to leave running; to leave lying around; to leave (a faucet) open

godan ~す verb:

• to leave on; to leave running; to leave lying around; to leave (a faucet) open

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take care of - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with - archaism ➜ 持て余す

adverb:

• (what) the heck; (why) in the world; (who) on earth - before an interrogative, forms an emphatic question

noun:

• one object; one body; unity
• one form; one style
• one Buddhist image (or carving, etc.)

adverbial noun:

• generally; in general ➜ 一体に

noun / suffix noun:

• section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
• phrase - Linguistics term
• verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
• haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
• maxim; saying; idiom; expression