expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal]

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal] ➜ いたちの道

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

noun / ~する noun:

• yell used to time or encourage activity (e.g. "Heave ho!", "On three ... One, two, three!" in English); enthusiastic shout from the audience (e.g. in kabuki); shouting (in concerts)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to linger (faint light of twilight); to remain lit in the lingering twilight ➜ 明け残る

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to communicate (with) ➜ 通じる
• to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to get through to
• to be understood; to be comprehended
• to be honored; to be good
• to be well versed in; to be well-informed
• to communicate clandestinely; to keep in touch (e.g. with the enemy)
• to form a liaison; to be intimate

noun:

• holding one's chopsticks in one's mouth (a breach of etiquette)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun:

• strokes in Chinese character; stroke count of a Chinese character

noun:

• form of torture in which the victim kneels on triangular wedges and stone slabs are placed on their lap

noun:

• blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus, species of requiem shark mostly found in the Indo-Pacific)

noun / ~の noun:

• black tip - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• smalleye hammerhead (Sphyrna tudes, species of hammerhead shark common in the western Atlantic)

noun:

• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands

noun:

• warbler being in a valley - obscure term ➜ 鶯遷【おうせん】
• valley in which warblers live - obscure term
• remaining obscure and unsuccessful - obscure term ➜ 鶯遷【おうせん】

noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier - abbreviation ➜ 内閣総理大臣

noun / ~する noun:

• leading; overseeing; leader; overseer; president - orig. meaning

noun:

• snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 月雪花【つきゆきはな】

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

expression:

• expression of humility said by the person who provided a meal after it is eaten - humble language ➜ お粗末

noun:

• traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom