noun:

• training for homemaking; training in homemaking arts - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• meeting for the first time; first meeting

noun:

• collecting mania; mania for collecting; collectionism

noun:

• scattering bait to attract fish; bait for scattering

expression:

• save me some; put some aside for me - from 取っておいて - abbreviation ➜ 取っておく【とっておく】

noun:

• journey; course; distance; march; flight; drive; leg (of a journey, relay race, etc.)
• itinerary
• stroke (of a piston); throw (of a switch)

noun:

• Eighth Route Army; 18th Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)

noun:

• groom; footman; stableman; equerry
• steward; intendant
• head of an institution, esp. religious; head of one institution serving also as the head of another - archaism

noun:

• novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman - four character idiom

noun:

• study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
• English literature; British studies

adjectival noun:

• that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such

noun / ~する noun:

• outbreak of an illness; onset of an illness; appearance of symptoms

noun:

• excess of exports; favorable balance of trade; favourable balance of trade - abbreviation ➜ 輸出超過

noun:

• seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table; head

expression:

• judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of

noun:

• intensity of solar radiation; quantity of solar radiation; flux of insolation

noun:

• code of conduct; code of practice
• action program; plan of action

noun:

• advocates of protection of the Constitution; supporter of the current Constitution

expression:

• judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of ➜ からすると

expression:

• judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of ➜ からすると

noun:

• agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between ➜ 口入れ屋
• flattery; flatterer
• Keian era (1648.2.15-1652.9.18) ［慶安］

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:

• kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced - Sports term