expression:

• craft brings nothing home; the crafty schemer drowns in his own scheme [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb:

• to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

noun:

• tone mark; mark placed in one of the four corners of a hanzi to show the tone in Chinese

noun:

• existing laws; regulations now (at present) in force

noun:

• Coregonus; genus of salmon in the family Salmonidae ➜ シロマス属

expression:

• things depend on how you use them; all things have their uses when they are used in the right way - proverb

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• being full of vitality (energy); vigorous and in high spirits - four character idiom

noun:

• old orogenic belt; mountain belts formed in the Palaeozoic era

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the East; Tang-period Chinese office established in Pyongyang in 668 CE ➜ 都護府

~の noun / adverb:

• parlante; (sung) in a speaking style - Music term - From Italian ➜ パルランド

expression:

• handling things without making waves; taking in one's stride

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be at a loss; to be in a corner

noun:

• minced pork rice; Taiwanese dish of pork stewed in soy, served on rice - Food term - From Chinese "lǔ ròu fàn"

noun / ~する noun:

• unit test; testing an item in isolation

~の noun:

• strongest ever; most powerful in history

adverb:

• not at all; not in the least - with neg. verb

adverb:

• minutely; in detail

noun:

• Yoshin-ryu; martial art tradition founded in the Edo period

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to bloom late; to remain in bloom

noun:

• miler; competitor in one-mile races
• person who uses airlines' mileage services, frequent-flyer points, etc. - From English "miler"

noun:

• tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe - four character idiom

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa)

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• vintage awamori; awamori aged in cask for at least three years - sometimes written 古酒 ➜ 泡盛【あわもり】・古酒【こしゅ】