expression:

• things that do not exist; horns on rabbits, fur on turtles [literal] - idiom - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• fight; scuffle
• walking about; walking around
• conducting oneself
• stroll (in noh, an action piece involving circling the stage)

noun:

• redundant keigo (i.e. improper use of the -rareru honorific form together with an honorific verb such as ossharu)

noun:

• binding particle (i.e. specifying an expression later in the sentence); linking particle; connecting particle - Linguistics term

expression:

• depending on; dependent on

expression:

• based on; grounded on ➜ 基づく

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look down over; to look down on

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• like an old man; like an old woman

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go with the flow; to go with the times - idiom

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to ram one's opponent head-first in the initial charge - Sumo term
• to punch hard; to hit hard

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go wherever one has to go (to get a matter settled, e.g. the court)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to hit a nerve; to go for the throat; to touch a sore spot - idiom ➜ 痛い所

noun:

• problems of the elderly
• problems of an aging society

noun:

• leftover food (esp. on one's plate at the end of a meal)

adverb / noun:

• finally; in the end; on top of all that

noun:

• memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• grapple; scuffle; fight
• defeating one's enemy on the battlefield

noun:

• left-over flesh on the spine of a fish (esp. tuna) or beef - Food term

noun:

• Kobo Daishi is always with me (written on the hats of Shikoku pilgrims) ➜ 四国遍路

expression:

• better safe than sorry; one should err on the side of caution - proverb

noun:

• way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

noun:

• sastrugi; parallel wave-like ridges formed on a snow surface by the wind

noun:

• direct appeal to the throne by the military

noun:

• the first star to appear in the evening

noun:

• the first leaves to appear after the cotyledon