noun:

• the part of the eyebrows near the middle forehead; inner ends of one's eyebrows

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol
• the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter - humorous term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be indicated as the winner of a bout by the raising of the referee's fan - Sumo term
• to be declared the winner - idiom

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State & the Dept. of Worship) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• the emperor's person
• the body of Christ; the Host; the Eucharist; Holy Communion

noun / ~する noun:

• the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor - four character idiom

noun:

• Islamic holy books (the Pentateuch, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran)

noun:

• principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol
• the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter - humorous term

noun:

• comparing autumn leaves to a garment
• layered garments that mimic the colours of autumn leaves (worn from the 9th to the 11th month of the lunar calendar)

expression / adjectival noun:

• woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping - female language

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun:

• the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; the true charm
• flavour of ghee; "delicious taste" [figurative] ➜ 醍醐
• Buddha's gracious teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• Xirong; Rong; inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE); barbarians to the west [literal]

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to cry loudly for a reform; to clamour for change ➜ 叫ぶ【さけぶ】

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term
• The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern) ［さんぞん］ ➜ 三尊天井
• the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher