noun:

• cavities in the frame of a door used as part of a pivot hinge ➜ 枢【くるる】
• door

expression:

• autumn with the sky clear and blue, and horses growing stout [literal]; autumn comes with harvest time and clear weather - proverb

noun:

• memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism) - Buddhism term

expression:

• render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's - from Matthew 22:21 - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air
• to strike at something and miss; to fan the air

noun:

• school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Rescript on Education (pre-war Japan)

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• for the first time; first thing; doing something for the first time - archaism
• first menstruation - archaism

noun:

• bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

noun:

• copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy

noun:

• burning off the fields

expression:

• The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven - four character idiom

noun:

• lying with one's head to the north (trad. position for dead bodies; taboo for sleeping)
• brown-lined puffer (species of pufferfish, Canthigaster rivulata) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• general term for the nine holes in the body of humans and other mammals

noun:

• avoiding the summer heat; beating the summer heat

noun:

• various information recorded in the almanac (as regards astronomy, astrology, etc.)

noun:

• the paper (manufacturing) industry

noun:

• words read by the priest in a Shinto purification rite

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism

expression:

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

noun:

• looking at the camera; paying attention to the camera ➜ 目線【めせん】

noun:

• school for the blind and dumb

noun / ~の noun:

• the intelligensia

noun:

• in the midst of the enemy

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be to the point; to be pertinent - prob. originated as a misuse of 的を射る but now in common use - colloquialism ➜ 的を射る