expression:

• having exhausted every available means; having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows [literal]

noun:

• Columbiformes; order of birds comprising pigeons and doves

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to rain heavily; to be raining cats and dougs - idiom

noun:

• the whole creation; everything in heaven and earth - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• coming together; gathering and coming

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• north of; and northward

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of tomorrow and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

noun:

• semi suite; large hotel room with separate sleeping and living room areas

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• semi-sweet

noun:

• collation; examining and comparing ➜ 校合

noun:

• pasha; honorary title in Ottoman Empire and pre-republican Egypt - From Turkish "paşa"

~と adverb / adverb:

• click; sound of a camera shutter - onomatopoeia ➜ パシャッと

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

noun:

• property ward; special local public body which has its own property, etc. and bears the expenses for it ➜ 特別地方公共団体【とくべつちほうこうきょうだんたい】

noun:

• Lagomorpha; order of rabbits, hares and pikas

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call

noun:

• elegant; handsome and refined

noun:

• the hole (between third and short); area between the third baseman and shortstop - Baseball term

noun:

• forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal - four character idiom

noun:

• garden; trees and flowers in a garden

noun:

• Board of Retainers; Kamakura- and Muromachi-period government office - esp. さむらいどころ
• samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods) - esp. さぶらいどころ

noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

noun:

• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ➜ 清談

noun:

• a single tree or blade of grass; every stick and stone (of a place) - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• looking on with surprise; surprised and changing one's expression

noun:

• Protectorate General; Han- and Tang-period Chinese office established to pacify and control peoples on the frontier (during the Tang period, six major Protectorate Generals were established) ➜ 都護・西域都護府・安東都護府・安南都護府・安西都護府・燕然都護府・単于都護府・北庭都護府