noun:

• final three bouts on the last day of a tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• pushing sumo; classic way of wrestling without using the belt - Sumo term

noun:

• extreme leg-stretching exercise to increase flexibility of the crotch - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事茫々

noun:

• maelstrom; the state of affairs being in great turmoil - four character idiom

expression:

• (when) the time of need arises; should an emergency occur - four character idiom

noun:

• the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren) - honorific language

noun / ~の noun:

• familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perfunctory; going-through-the-motions-sort of (invitation, gift, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• cosmopolitan (international) way of thinking; feeling for the wider world - four character idiom

noun:

• the state (degree) of congestion; how bad traffic jams are - four character idiom

noun:

• one's grasp of the situation; knowing how matters stand - four character idiom

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• (being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post - four character idiom

noun:

• The Hundred Days (of Napoleon I); very short-lived regime - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

noun:

• Aceraceae; family of flowering plants including the maples ➜ 槭樹

noun:

• Caprifoliaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the honeysuckles

noun:

• Ebenaceae; family of flowering plants including the ebony

noun:

• Tiliaceae; family of flowering plants, incl. the linden

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have the memory of having done something oneself ➜ 身に覚えのある

noun:

• little tern (the official bird of Chiba); sterna albifrons

noun:

• center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas) - obscure term

noun:

• reinforcing "bolt" stitch across the bottom of a seam

noun:

• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"