noun:

• Japanese (person) - From Russian "yaponskiy"

noun:

• Osakan (person)

noun:

• passionate person

noun:

• Okinawan (person)

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

expression:

• after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad - proverb

noun:

• an offering of tea and hot water made to Buddha or the spirit of the deceased
• a tea infusion; tea and hot water
• tea ceremony ➜ 茶の湯

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

expression:

• those who wish to rule the land must first cultivate their own characters, then manage their families, then govern their states; only then can they bring peace to the land (a mantra of Confucianism) - proverb

noun:

• bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree - abbreviation ➜ 月桂樹
• moon; moonlight
• katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends) - orig. meaning

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (in) - usu. 勤める
• to serve (as); to act (as); to fill (the position of); to play the role (of) - usu. 務める
• to conduct a religious service - usu. 勤める

expression:

• avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb

noun:

• without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• active duty; active service
• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try - often as 現役で ➜ 浪人【ろうにん】

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to reach; to amount to; to befall; to happen to; to extend
• to be up to the task; to come up to ➜ 及ばない
• to compare with; to be a match (for)
• to commit (a crime) ➜ 犯罪に及ぶ
• to require (to do) - usu. used in the negative ➜ 及ばない

expression:

• better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• mind; heart; spirit
• the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)

noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• traversing
• walking along the ridge of a mountain range

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• longitudinal

expression:

• looking the other way; hushing up a problem - idiom

noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier

noun:

• the sense of being engulfed in a green, mountainous atmosphere

noun:

• benefiting from the influence of a master or parent

noun:

• the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains - four character idiom - Buddhism term
• a series of disasters