noun:

• half-soled straw sandals; straw sandals which are designed only for the front half of the foot ➜ 草鞋

noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

noun:

• collapsing in the middle of a bout - Sumo term
• breaking down (while in the middle of something); faltering halfway

noun:

• the five colours: green, yellow, red, white and black; the five colors; five-coloured porcelain; five-colored porcelain

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let someone have the credit for (a success); to let someone else carry the flowers [literal]

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun:

• the art of war; martial arts; military arts - archaism
• military force; the sword
• valor; bravery
• military officer; military man

noun:

• there; that situation; that occasion
• the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there

expression:

• like the young man who tried to walk like the Kantan people, gave up, and forgot how to walk

expression:

• things cannot be larger than the things that contain them; there are no boars larger than the mountain [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent

noun:

• familiarity with the land
• locality or terrain (usually associated with knowing or feeling the locality)

noun:

• the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects - abbreviation ➜ 八宗
• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian ➜ 入唐八家

noun:

• mirror - archaism - obscure term
• Mafutsu no Kagami (alternate name for Yata no Kagami, the mirror of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 八咫鏡

expression:

• the good and bad deeds cancel each other out; good deeds make up for the bad - idiom

expression:

• to live long is to outlive much; the longer you live, the more shame you suffer - proverb

noun:

• obstructing the discharge of official duties; hindering a government official in the execution of his duties

noun:

• very superior old pale (cognac); VSOP
• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern" ➜ ワンパターン
• VLBI Space Observatory Programme; Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme ➜ 超長距離干渉計【ちょうちょうきょりかんしょうけい】

noun:

• the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year ➜ 厄年

noun:

• strength; power; proficiency; ability

suffix noun:

• the strength of ... people; the strength of ... men - after a number of people

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to expose to the wind; to dry (something) in the wind

noun:

• hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left - Sumo term

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye; loving someone dearly - idiom

noun:

• turning evil into good through indoctrination; following the teachings of Buddha to turn the world's evil into good - Buddhism term

noun:

• grounds south of a building; southern garden
• garden south of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in the Kyoto Imperial Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿