expression:

• rushing to one's doom; (like a) moth flying into the flame - idiom

expression / adjectival noun:

• gushing forth; bursting out; like breaking a dam [literal]

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

expression:

• crestfallen; dejected; shriveled (like a slug sprinkled with salt) - idiom

noun:

• young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

expression:

• being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name [literal] - proverb

noun:

• free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade - four character idiom

expression:

• if not ... then what is it?; (this) is nothing other than ...

expression:

• greatness is comparative; there is always someone better than you - proverb

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

noun:

• taste for the exotic; infatuation with a foreign way of life; exoticism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• retirement from active life
• moving out of accommodation; finding a new residence - recent meaning

adjectival noun:

• plausible (e.g. of a rumour); believable (e.g. of a story); specious (e.g. of an argument); credible (e.g. of a lie); looking very like the truth

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• like an old man; like an old woman

expression:

• it is not possible (to, that); there is no such thing as

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot - oft. adv. as おうむ返しに

noun:

• ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) - Buddhism term ➜ 如是我聞
• ten thusnesses (in Tendai) - abbreviation ➜ 十如是

noun:

• inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

noun:

• fashion style for young women invoking a soft, forest-like feeling

noun:

• dragon-like cryptid fish with many whiskers and no bones (likely a sturgeon) ➜ 蝶鮫

noun:

• groups of hiragana characters which are arranged to look like a face

noun:

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

expression:

• sleep brings up a child well; a well-slept child is a well-kept child - proverb