noun:

• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

noun:

• court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period)
• separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period) ➜ 曹司
• room for a very low class prostitute
• very low class prostitute ➜ 局女郎

noun:

• agent; person in charge

noun:

• Protectorate General of Beiting; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 702 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• the whole nation; all the people in the land - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to add (to what was said before); to say in addition

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cry and beg for mercy; to apologize in tears

noun:

• Pokemon seizure incident (Dec. 16, 1997); incident in which flashing lights in a Pokemon episode induced seizures in hundreds of viewers - From English "Pokemon shock"

noun:

• decorative portable shrine; float used in festivals - not often used in Kyoto - Kansai dialect ➜ 山車【だし】

noun:

• gentle on the outside but tough on the inside; an iron hand in a velvet glove - four character idiom

noun:

• sulcus; groove in the surface of the brain

expression:

• innocent-looking; looking as though butter would not melt in the mouth

noun:

• already installed; already in place - IT term

noun:

• taking turns; working in shifts

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• a fence; dealer in stolen goods

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put to trial; to argue in court

noun:

• Ctenopoma; genus of freshwater climbing gouramies with terrestrial locomotion ability in the family Anabantidae

noun:

• wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) ➜ 袈裟
• slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder ➜ 袈裟切り

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one - four character idiom

expression:

• red-handed; in flagrante delicto

adjectival noun:

• beyond one's means or position; inappropriate to one's lot in life ➜ 身分相応・分不相応