noun:

• pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing - four character idiom ➜ 夏山冬里方式

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; easygoing and indifferent person; pococurante ➜ 極楽蜻蛉

expression / ichidan verb:

• to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 欠き餅

noun:

• body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward) - Sumo term

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• Kinki region (incl. Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

noun:

• Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out; jutting upward

noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)

noun:

• signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. - slang

noun:

• round-necked robe worn by members of nobility and the imperial court

noun:

• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised) ➜ 心学

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 大篆

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 大篆

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• distance between outstretched thumb and middle finger (approx. 18 cm) - archaism

noun:

• Ama no Nuhoko; the heavenly jeweled spear used by Izanagi and Izanami - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Wang Yangming and his followers) ➜ 朱子学

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• short clip used to begin and end commercial breaks on Japanese TV - From English "eyecatch"

noun:

• difference between track followed by front and back inner wheels when turning

noun:

• tea ceremony performed with tables and chairs (instead of sitting on tatami)