noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

noun:

• The Nonpareil Kitchen; The Kitchen of the Nation (nickname for Osaka)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to relieve someone of the leading role - obscure term

expression:

• variant of "de arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period ➜ ありんす

noun:

• the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering) - Buddhism term

noun:

• formal, usually black, kimono with designs along the bottom of the skirt worn by married women on ceremonial occasions; married woman's ceremonial kimono

expression:

• according to the rules - IT term

noun:

• the whole world; the universe - four character idiom

expression:

• the only way (is to ..)

noun:

• salt-throwing ceremony before the sumo bout - Sumo term

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• inquiring the Buddha way

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period ➜ 独鈷石

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hit the mark ➜ 正鵠を射る

noun:

• image of the recumbent Buddha ➜ 涅槃像

noun:

• strength of the voice

noun:

• the aged

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to view the past with nostalgia

noun:

• (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・太簇
• (in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E ➜ 律旋・六調子

noun:

• chairman of the Aikikai (Aikido World Headquarters)

noun:

• (noise, smell, air, water) pollution in the neighborhood - four character idiom

noun:

• first Day of the Rat of the New Year
• first Day of the Rat of the month (esp. of the 11th month)

noun:

• thin padded mat laid on the tatami

expression / ichidan verb:

• the New Year begins; the New Year starts

adjectival noun / noun:

• looking or acting as if one owned the place