noun:

• basking in the sun ➜ 日向ぼっこ

noun:

• direct hit

noun:

• twenty-fourth day of the month
• twenty-four days

noun:

• steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)
• administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) ➜ 政所

expression / noun:

• care for patients with bedpans, urinary bottles, etc.

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

noun:

• rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same family - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to have sex with - slang

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun:

• talking with gestures

noun:

• year of the rat

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open the door

noun:

• soup of dumplings filled with walnuts and brown sugar, boiled together with vegetables, tofu, etc. - Food term

expression:

• the mediocre cannot understand the great - proverb - sensitive ➜ 群盲象を撫でる

noun:

• man of the future; Homo futurus; time traveler from the future

noun:

• moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra
• imperial palace
• Yoshiwara red light district - archaism

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

noun:

• the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界

noun:

• the time after next

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

suffix:

• in magazines like ...

noun / ~の noun:

• inflammation of the prostate

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the month; mid-month

noun:

• the Japanese reading of a kanji

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)