noun:

• Pangu; creator of heaven and earth in Chinese mythology

expression:

• you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence; steal a pig and give the feet for alms [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

noun:

• whole egg; egg white and egg yolk

expression:

• Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning) - four character idiom

noun:

• colloquial grammar; grammar of modern spoken and written japanese

noun:

• doing a job; riding and sweating up a horse

noun:

• gentleman; man of learning and virtue

noun:

• feminine spirit; graceful and kind nature - archaism ➜ 男気【おとこぎ】

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun:

• topcoat; light overcoat for use in spring and autumn - From English "spring coat"

noun:

• mineral spring; spring containing many minerals and gas (esp. a cold spring) ➜ 冷泉

noun:

• Their Majesties; the Emperor and Empress - honorific language

adjectival noun / noun:

• heartless; cruel; causes and actions; results of actions in previous life

noun:

• teyo-dawa speech; mid-Meiji period schoolgirl slang in which sentence-end particles "teyo" and "dawa" were used prominently

expression / ~の noun / adjectival noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot more; much more; and then some; and plenty more than that

adverb / ~の noun:

• repeatedly; frequently; over and over; time and time again

adverb:

• exceedingly; sincerely; very much

noun:

• HARC; Hierarchical Storage Archive and Retrieve Controller - IT term

noun:

• disaster hood; protective hood worn during earthquakes and other disasters (e.g. to protect from falling objects)

noun:

• perineum; area between sex organs and the anus ➜ 会陰【えいん】
• very narrow passage

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to grovel; to go down on one's hands and knees ➜ 這い蹲る

noun:

• reading comprehension; ability to read and understand

expression:

• with the skin on; skin and all (fruit, potato, etc.) ➜ 共【ごと】

noun:

• alnico; iron alloy containing aluminum, nickel, and cobalt

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom