noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

expression:

• more generously for the lower-paid

noun:

• the classical period

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fit the mold; to fit the mould; to be standard; to be customary; to be unoriginal; to be stale ➜ 型に嵌める【かたにはめる】

noun:

• net of the law; justice

expression / ichidan verb:

• to announce the time

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the opportunity (to do something); to take the chance

noun:

• the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 易行道

noun:

• helping the lepers - obscure term

expression:

• even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter - proverb

noun:

• clans supposedly descended from the gods

~の noun:

• direct from the farm; farm-fresh - abbreviation ➜ 産地直送【さんちちょくそう】

noun:

• the Bunmeikan Theater

noun:

• nineteenth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• the Seven Continents ➜ 五大州【ごだいしゅう】

noun / ~する noun:

• (people) sing the praises (enjoy the blessings) of peace - four character idiom

noun:

• residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to seize the initiative

expression:

• inside and outside the company

noun:

• King of the Mountains (cycling, esp. Tour de France) - Sports term

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the North; Tang-period Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 669 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

noun:

• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

noun:

• first year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō) ➜ 甲子・三革

noun:

• the principle of not resuming debate on an item in the same Diet session in which it has been voted down