expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母マリア

noun:

• Assumption (of the body and soul of Mary into heaven) ➜ 聖母被昇天

noun:

• the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam

noun:

• the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith ➜ 六信五行

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up (with chopsticks, tweezers, etc.)
• to pick up and eat; to snack on
• to pick out (the main point); to summarize; to sum up
• to bewitch; to possess; to fascinate - usu. as つままれる

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are ➜ 浮世

noun:

• (raised) footpath between rice fields; ridge between rice fields

noun:

• double-dealer; fence-sitter; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict; duplicity; turncoat - four character idiom

expression:

• there is a great difference between being told about something and actually seeing it with your own eyes - proverb

noun:

• fate; destiny
• connection; tie; bond; origin
• pretext; justification
• hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) - Buddhism term

noun:

• ball hit toward the gap between outfielders - Baseball term

noun:

• ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism) - derogatory term

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• buildings on the east and west side of the southern pond (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り

expression:

• third climate of spring (when the ice breaks and fish start appearing near the surface) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• calligraphy technique of holding the brush perpendicularly, lower arm raised, and elbow held away from the body ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】・懸腕

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

noun:

• judge (of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office); judicial officer; minister of justice
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office - abbreviation ➜ 弾正台

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun:

• sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo); oroblanco

noun:

• written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll)
• a text written entirely in kana
• graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries)
• notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.)
• rough draft

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits