expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

noun:

• list of 1,006 kanji taught in Japanese primary schools ➜ 常用漢字・当用漢字

noun:

• large number of people

noun:

• spurt of blood (from one's victim)

noun:

• right to the pursuit of happiness

expression:

• coolness of distant twinkling lights (on a summer night)

noun:

• tears of sadness

noun:

• History of the Jin Dynasty

noun:

• female guardian deity of the market

noun:

• angle of view (photography)

noun:

• man of well-cultivated tastes

noun:

• number of pupils

noun:

• sense of stability

noun:

• eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring - four character idiom

noun:

• the six classes of (kanji) characters ［りくしょ・りきしょ］
• Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)

noun:

• fire built in an iron basket (watch fire, fishing fire, etc.); bonfire; campfire ➜ 篝
• brothel-keeper (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• letter of apology

noun:

• the work of man

noun:

• three qualities of a wrestler: heart, technique, physique - Sumo term

noun:

• university of arts; arts college

noun:

• burden of proof - Law term ➜ 挙証責任

noun:

• wrestler of grand champion quality but without the title - Sumo term

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• observance of the Buddha's teachings

noun:

• nest of lacquer boxes