noun / ~する noun:

• winning a prize or place (in a contest)

noun / ~する noun:

• standing in a row; forming a line; alignment

adverb:

• in a big way; on a grand scale

noun / ~の noun:

• (in) a humble position with a small stipend - four character idiom

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947

noun:

• qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

noun:

• spine; line of the backbone
• seam down the back (of clothing)

noun:

• xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)

noun:

• dui (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: swamp, west)

noun:

• worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism - four character idiom

noun:

• scholar who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun:

• the orientation of time and place; awareness of the existing situation - four character idiom

noun:

• worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism - four character idiom

noun:

• kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest)

noun:

• gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)

noun:

• li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

noun:

• zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

noun:

• holding the proper state of mindfulness at the moment of death - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• second month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term ➜ 如月
• 15th day of the second month of the lunar calendar (around mid-spring) ［中春］ - obscure term

pronoun / pre-noun adjectival:

• this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic) ➜ 此れ・此の

noun:

• traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
• fundamentals; the ABCs of ...