noun:

• the three players other than oneself - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrest the culprit

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to complain of the heat; to feel the heat

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to get on well with (someone)

noun:

• the following table

noun:

• fuel-air ratio; air-fuel ratio; AFR - from 空気と燃料の量の比 - abbreviation

noun:

• houses of the Diet being controlled by different parties; twisted parliament [literal]

noun:

• the Feast of Weeks; Pentecost

noun:

• golf pro sponsored by the tournament host - From English "host pro"

noun:

• the three main gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children - Shintō term

noun:

• the same newspaper

expression / adjective:

• bad for the eyes

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• suicide brought on by excessive overwork ➜ 過労死

noun:

• free on board (i.e. seller pays to have goods placed on a ship); FOB

noun:

• rays of the setting sun - obscure term

expression:

• take the opportunity to (do something else) ➜ 物の序で

noun:

• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

expression:

• based on a nation's people; popular base

expression:

• (it won't be possible) on such short notice

noun:

• style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho) ➜ 天明・蕉風
• style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo) ➜ 狂歌

noun:

• chanting the invocation to Amida Buddha - Buddhism term ➜ 念仏

noun:

• the Paris Commune

noun:

• ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead