expression:

• "laugh and grow fat" [figurative]; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile [literal] - from Chi: 打開笑門福自來 - proverb

noun:

• six objective fields of the senses (shape and colour, sound, scent, flavour, physical feeling, and mental presentation) - Buddhism term

adverbial noun / noun:

• all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land - four character idiom

noun:

• valve (of the heart and the veins) - Anatomy term

noun:

• understanding (between the two) - four character idiom

noun:

• reading between the lines - four character idiom

noun:

• gap between the clouds

noun:

• space between plants; intrarow spacing; space between roots

noun:

• bracelet (made of stringed jewels or bells and worn at the elbow) - archaism
• bracer (for the elbow of an archer)

noun:

• coalition of the Socialist Party and the Komeito

noun:

• The Confucian Analects and the Discourses of Mencius

expression:

• complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways - four character idiom

noun:

• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term
• the seven days of the week

noun / ~する noun:

• kneeling with the balls of the feet on the floor and sitting on one's heels ➜ 正座【せいざ】

counter:

• counter for numbering the rounds in a tournament

suffix noun:

• fight with ... rounds (e.g. boxing)

noun / ~する noun:

• ground (elec)
• contact patch (between car tyre and road)
• landing (an aeroplane, airplane)

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

noun:

• funhouse; fun house
• subculture magazine published in Japan between 1974 and 1985 ［ビックリハウス］

expression:

• confidentially speaking; between you and me; don't tell anybody else about this

noun:

• one's second son ➜ 次男【じなん】
• man between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 少丁

expression:

• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

noun:

• between the leaves; through the leaves

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)