expression:

• slow but steady wins the race; constant effort will result in success; constant dripping wears away a stone [literal] - proverb

noun:

• the Siberia Intervention (1918-1922); the Siberian Expedition

noun:

• mark on a stage, movie set, etc. showing the position of people or props ➜ バミる

noun:

• governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines

noun:

• three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) ➜ 三卿

noun:

• the people; multitude; masses

noun:

• omnibus term for the names of cities, wards, towns or villages

noun / ~する noun:

• on-the-spot (report); eyewitness (report)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• three days from today ➜ 弥の明後日【やのあさって】
• four days from today ➜ 弥の明後日【やのあさって】

noun:

• regent to the shogunate

noun:

• flower fastened in the hair

noun:

• ability to oppose the thumb; opposable thumb

expression:

• The consensus of opinion is that ...; It is widely agreed (admitted) that ... - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• rainy spells just before the rainy season

~の noun:

• towards the Soviet Union; with the Soviet Union

noun:

• root of the tongue

noun:

• second star of the evening

noun:

• 58th year of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• tears on the sleeves (of one's kimono); "weeping copiously" [figurative] - lit., e.g. in 源氏物語

adjectival noun:

• about the same; about equal to; close match

noun:

• cancer of the tongue

expression:

• on the contrary

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to talk all the night

noun:

• the "ra" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ra, ri, ru, re, ro)

expression:

• the more one looks (at it) the more...