expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜に烏

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜の烏

noun:

• a spring that gushes forth from a valley

expression / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• just now; a little while back; a short time ago

expression:

• a neighbour is better than a relative living far - proverb

expression:

• A wise man changes his mind, a fool never - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• rough sketch used as a guideline for a picture ➜ 下書き

noun:

• dress worn by a geisha to a zashiki party ➜ 座敷

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to start (e.g. a scene, a war, etc.) ➜ 幕を切る

noun:

• ceremony for moving a deity to a new site - Shintō term ➜ 遷座【せんざ】・遷宮祭【せんぐうさい】

noun:

• hill in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)

noun:

• name post outside a shrine (usu. a stone pillar)

noun:

• (a) dream; (a) fleeting thing

expression:

• a jewel in a dunghill

noun / ~の noun:

• a bundle; a hundred

noun:

• a minute and a half

noun:

• a step; a short distance

noun:

• a tideway; a sea route

noun:

• a laughingstock; a standing joke

noun:

• (a) bunch; (a) bundle ➜ 一纏

noun:

• question (e.g. on a test); problem
• problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter
• question (i.e. doubt)
• public discussion; controversy
• trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty

noun / ~する noun:

• rushing into; breaking into; storming
• plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)

noun:

• stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を守る

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を破る