expression:

• Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning) - four character idiom

noun:

• the three main Shinto gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children ➜ 三柱の神

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

noun:

• men's fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• bitter experience; learning from a bad experience; having had enough (of something unpleasant); having had a bellyful; being sick and tired (of something); being fed up

expression:

• see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil; the three wise monkeys

noun / adjectival noun:

• calm, cool, and collected; level and calm - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• calm, cool, and collected; level and calm - four character idiom

noun:

• boss and his henchmen; boss and underlings

noun:

• horsefly and bee; horsefly and wasp ➜ 虻蜂取らず【あぶはちとらず】

noun:

• large-size refuse (e.g. furniture, electrical goods); oversized garbage; bulky rubbish
• useless man about the house; husband that is retired and considered a nuisance - colloquialism - derogatory term

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

noun:

• Land Price LOOK Report; quarterly trend report of the prices of intensively used land in major cities

expression / adjective:

• having no knowledge (of); knowing nothing about; coming from out of the blue; having no connection with oneself ➜ 身に覚えのある【みにおぼえのある】

noun:

• one's heart of hearts; the depths of one's mind

noun:

• Mary (mother of Jesus); the Virgin Mary - From Latin "Maria" ➜ 聖母マリア
• Mary (of Magdala); Mary Magdalene

noun:

• last day of February; last day of the second lunar month

noun:

• paper of the same material, colour, etc.; same type of paper

noun:

• principle of virtuous government; virtue as the principle of good government

noun / ~の noun:

• living flesh; flesh and blood
• physical body of Buddha or a bodhisattva ［しょうじん］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• temple kitchen; monastery kitchen - Buddhism term
• quarters of a head priest (and his family) - Buddhism term

noun:

• hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach