expression / noun:

• the strong overwhelming the weak; completing various things without difficulty; Mt. Tai crushes an egg [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• mushroom that springs up in the morning and withers by night; "something short-lived" [figurative] - archaism

noun:

• USA, Britain, France and the Netherlands

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up while hitting the ball; keeping one's chin up and not looking at the ball while hitting it - Sports term - From English "head up"

noun:

• across-the-board (policy)

noun:

• shape-of-the-mind fist; Hsing I Chuan - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Portuguese card game popular in Japan during the late 16th century ➜ ウンスンカルタ

noun:

• age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

noun:

• keeping over the summer

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let the rent fall into arrears

noun:

• doyen of the diplomatic corps

expression:

• passing the center line

noun:

• the daimyo of a feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be pleasure to the eye; to delight the eye; to please the eye; to feast one's eyes on ➜ 目を悦ばす

noun:

• wearing something for the first time ➜ 下ろし【おろし】

godan ~す verb:

• to pass the time talking

noun:

• the whole fief

noun:

• commentaries of the ancients

noun:

• The Five Classics (of Confucianism) ➜ 詩経【しきょう】・書経【しょきょう】・礼記【らいき】・易経【えききょう】・春秋【しゅんじゅう】

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "a" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音

noun:

• the philosophy of the European Enlightenment

noun:

• the Crusaders

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• the five sentence structures (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC) - Linguistics term ➜ 基本五文型