expression:

• Blossoms fall and leaves scatter; the evanescence (impermanence) of worldly things - four character idiom

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• knee touch down - Sumo term
• posture with knees and toes on the floor

noun:

• silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics) ➜ 五明

noun:

• strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried

noun:

• strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried ➜ 割り干し大根

noun / ~の noun:

• metazoan (any member of the animal kingdom, excluding protozoans and sponges)

noun:

• coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process

noun:

• metal collar mounted between a sword blade and the hand guard

noun:

• blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus, found in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• perineum; area between sex organs and the anus ➜ 会陰【えいん】
• very narrow passage

noun:

• the three Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic)

noun:

• règle des trois unités; the three unities (time, place and action)

noun:

• the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• The Lapland War (between Finland and Germany 1944-1945)

noun:

• posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting

noun:

• the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

noun:

• interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues - Sports term ➜ セ・パ

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to read (a book); to open (a book) to read
• to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to understand everything from only one part; to be perceptive; to be quick to understand; to be quick on the uptake - idiom

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to highlight something; to bring something to the forefront

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to drift together; to drift to the shore

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun / prefix:

• previous; prior; former; first; earlier; some time ago; preceding
• point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle
• head (of a line); front
• ahead; the other side
• the future; hereafter
• destination
• the other party