noun:

• Amitabha (Buddha); Amida - Buddhism term
• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀籤【あみだくじ】
• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀被り【あみだかぶり】

noun:

• The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching ➜ 五経

proper noun:

• Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible); Letter to the Hebrews; Hebrews ➜ ヘブライ人への手紙

noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation - four character idiom

expression / ~よい adjective:

• glib; slick (sounds good but no substance); all talk - derogatory term
• in good form; in great shape; having things progress well

noun:

• nasal plug
• wedge (in tusk mortise-and-tenon joint); wooden pin driven through tenon to hold it in place - Architecture term

noun:

• method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism - Buddhism term

noun:

• tearing someone in two by tying their legs to two carts moving in opposite directions (form of medieval punishment)

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview - From English "hero interview"

noun:

• being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein - four character idiom

noun:

• being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come home in triumph; to return to one's hometown in glory

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to come home in triumph; to return to one's hometown in glory - idiom ➜ 故郷に錦を飾る

noun:

• useless card (in karuta); worthless card ➜ カルタ
• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

expression / ichidan verb:

• to factor in; to take into account; to include in one's considerations

adverb:

• no matter what; anyhow; in any case; at any rate; in any event; anyway - archaism

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take in; to bring in; to adopt (e.g. behaviour); to introduce ➜ 採り込む
• to capture (e.g. image); to import - IT term
• to win over; to please; to curry favour with; to flatter
• to defraud of; to swindle; to embezzle

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be busy; to be in confusion; to have trouble

noun:

• 43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)

noun:

• goodwill; intangible assets (part of the acquisition price of a business paid for the name and reputation of the company rather than tangible assets)

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

expression:

• among these; between these; of these
• in here; in this ［このなか］