noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese)

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese) - abbreviation ➜ ラ行変格活用

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• bribe; money under the table

noun:

• noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (Defence)

noun:

• new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

noun:

• Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• Nihon Kouki (third of the six classical Japanese history texts) ➜ 六国史

noun:

• Montoku Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts) - abbreviation ➜ 日本文徳天皇実録

noun:

• Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) - abbreviation ➜ 日本三代実録

noun:

• Yamato (province) ➜ 大和
• Japan ➜ 日本
• the art of classical Japanese poetry - abbreviation ➜ 敷島の道

noun:

• wealth and military strength of a country; "rich country, strong army": a slogan from the Meiji era referring to the government's goals for the country - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to study under (a teacher)

noun:

• way of standing
• dancer (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 地方【じかた】

noun:

• Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations) ➜ 音読み

noun:

• Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball - Sports term ➜ 硬式野球

noun:

• Japanese pronunciation of a kanji (based on adopted Chinese pronunciations) ➜ 音読み

noun:

• temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs) - Shintō term

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap) ➜ 平瓦・瓦当