noun:

• ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and tortoise shells

noun:

• sleet (mixture of snow and rain)
• shaved ice topped with honey

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call

noun:

• leaf; petal; piece of paper; snowflake; something flat and thin

noun:

• mixture of boiled beans, agar cubes, fruit pieces and syrup - Food term

noun:

• Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call

noun:

• Death comes to old and young alike; uncertainty of life - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事渺茫

noun:

• feeling (looking) lone and helpless; helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

expression:

• Wrong and right are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• having presence of mind; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed; with serenity - archaism - four character idiom

expression:

• Good and evil are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

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

noun:

• cupronickel (alloy of approximately 80% copper and 20% nickel) ➜ 白銅

noun:

• poor and careless way of living - archaism - male language
• self deprecating first person pronoun

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:

• thin, dried strips of daikon soaked in vinegar and other flavorings ➜ はりはり漬け

noun:

• Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history, approx. 770-403 BCE)

noun / ~の noun:

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

noun:

• Marshallian k (ratio of monetary base and nominal GNP)

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) ➜ 桟【えつり】
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo)

noun:

• qin and se (two different kinds of Chinese zither) ➜ 瑟・琴【きん】
• happy marriage