expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; a round egg can be cut into a square [literal] - proverb

noun:

• current flowing from the open sea towards land ➜ 離岸流【りがんりゅう】

noun:

• worship of the powerful - four character idiom

noun:

• mixed kun-on kanji reading ➜ 重箱読み

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to depend on somebody else's (financial) support (usu. one's parents') ➜ 親のすねをかじる

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• the machine industry

noun / ~する noun:

• recommendation to the throne - archaism

noun:

• cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

noun:

• double doors opening from the centre

~の noun:

• double-opening from the centre (e.g. doors, casement windows, etc.)

noun:

• method of filleting fish, chicken, etc. with a central cut and peeling back the flesh

noun:

• having the penis hang out (e.g. no trousers or pants) - also written 振りチン, etc. - slang - vulgar

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

noun:

• winning hand with the score doubled twice - Mahjong term

noun:

• railway carriage with the air conditioning set to a higher temperature ➜ 弱冷房車【じゃくれいぼうしゃ】

expression:

• along the route (line)

noun / ~する noun:

• air pluviation; pluviate

noun:

• "bird-in-the-cage" children's game

expression / noun:

• God of the gaps

noun:

• the whole; all the rest

expression:

• losing the means of livelihood ➜ 食い上げ

noun:

• sword-shaped stoneware found in archeological sites in eastern Japan dating to the end of the Jomon period

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

noun:

• one's views on the family; family values

noun:

• the thirteen buddhas, bodhisattvas and wisdom kings - Buddhism term ➜ 不動明王・釈迦如来・文殊菩薩・普賢菩薩・地蔵菩薩・弥勒菩薩・薬師如来・観世音菩薩・勢至菩薩・阿弥陀如来・阿しゅく仏・大日如来・虚空蔵菩薩