expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• school bag (usu. handheld or hung from the shoulder); schoolbag

expression:

• bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited - proverb - Buddhism term

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) - abbreviation ➜ 文部省美術展覧会【もんぶしょうびじゅつてんらんかい】

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter)
• top; summit
• surface; on
• before; previous
• superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder)
• on top of that; besides; what's more
• upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after)
• matters concerning...; as concerns ...
• since (i.e. "for that reason") - as ...上は

suffix noun:

• suffix indicating higher social standing - honorific language ➜ 父上
• place of one's superior (i.e. the throne) - archaism
• emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo - archaism
• noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman) - archaism

noun:

• hero package (commercial in which the product is the hero of the segment)

noun:

• 'ra'-removed; the practice of skipping the 'ra' from the 'rareru' verb conjugation - abbreviation ➜ ら抜き言葉

noun:

• barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go over the hump; to get successfully through the bulk of the work

expression:

• the proof of the pudding is in the eating; evidence is better than debate [literal]

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

noun:

• agency (government department between a ministry and a bureau under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

expression:

• The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven - four character idiom

noun:

• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

noun:

• arch of the foot; plantar arch; (the part that) does not step on the ground [literal]

noun:

• parhelion; sun dog; sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻月

noun:

• paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻日

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down (e.g. off a chair); to slip down (e.g. one's eyeglasses); to slide down
• to make a fool of oneself
• to whoop it up; to be on the spree; to cut loose; to mess around

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; great beauty; (so beautiful that) the moon hides and flowers are abashed [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.); pulmonary aspiration; mis-swallowing; swallowing down the wrong pipe - Medicine term

noun:

• cap cloud (cloud shaped like an Asian bamboo hat that forms at the peak of a tall mountain)

noun:

• Pseudocarchariidae; family whose only member is a species of mackerel shark known as the crocodile shark

noun:

• monk who attends to the principal image of a temple
• Buddhist monk serving at an attached Shinto shrine