noun:

• broad-footed mole (Scapanus latimanus)

noun / ~する noun:

• engage in ascetic practices with dauntless spirit - four character idiom

noun:

• one chance; only opportunity - abbreviation ➜ ワンチャンス
• maybe; perhaps; there is a chance that - slang
• one-night stand - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• join one's hands in prayer; pray with (the palms of) one's hands together - four character idiom

noun:

• by virtue of one's office; in the nature of one's duties

noun:

• castle town; city in Japan that developed around the castle of a feudal lord

noun:

• shiku-kaisei city planning; city renewal that occurred in the Taisho and Meiji eras

noun:

• division of a shrine's tutelary deity, in order to share it with another shrine; spirit divided in such a manner

expression / ichidan verb:

• blood flows [literal]
• to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood" - usu. ...の血が流れる - idiom

noun:

• yin (i.e. the negative) Antonym: 陽
• unseen location (i.e. somewhere private) ➜ 陰に

noun:

• soba noodles in broth served continuously so that the guest or customer never has an empty bowl

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

expression / ~の noun:

• as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for

noun:

• the spirit of curiosity

noun:

• spirit of the age; zeitgeist - four character idiom

conjunction:

• apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but; however

expression:

• that; it - subject of sentence
• well yes, actually, now that you mention it; well, in fact - in response to a question - idiom

noun:

• Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity) - Buddhism term
• great runner

noun:

• fighting spirit (in sport); tenacity - from スポーツ根性 - abbreviation

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:

• spirit of someone on the first O-Bon after their death ➜ 御盆
• the recently departed (and buried or cremated, etc.)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的