noun / ~の noun:

• lumping together all sorts of things; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with various things under one head

noun / ~する noun:

• appreciation of the yen; strong yen; strengthening of the yen; high-valued yen; exchange in favor of the yen (favour)

noun:

• Actinopterygii (class of the ray-finned fishes comprising nearly 95% of the 25,000 species of fish)

noun:

• School of Diplomacy; one of the Schools of Thought during the Warring States period in China ➜ 諸子百家【しょしひゃっか】

suffix noun:

• from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of
• aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above

noun:

• first volume (e.g. book) ➜ 下【げ】・上巻

noun / prefix:

• superior quality; best; top; high class
• going up
• governmental; imperial
• presenting; showing

prefix:

• ana- (medical, biol.)

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• arrowhead
• target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
• the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に

noun:

• Buddhist term
• teaching of the Buddha; saying of the Buddha; words of the Buddha

noun:

• protest advertising (on an issue by a pressure group)

noun:

• Aegukga; national anthem of South Korea
• Aegukka; national anthem of North Korea; The Patriotic Song; Let Morning Shine
• The Patriotic Song; national anthem of the Russian SFSR and of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 2000

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

expression / noun:

• flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; passage of time; stream of time
• current of the times; trend of the times

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• main gate; front gate - obscure term
• latter half of the Lotus Sutra, which describes the nature of the Buddha - Buddhism term ➜ 迹門

noun:

• 13th day (of the moon); the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• refusal to accept the present situation; denial of the existing situation; negation of the status quo - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句・重陽【ちょうよう】