noun:

• oceanic noise; rumbling of the sea; mistpouffer

noun:

• seal over the edges of adjacent sheets

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cut and dry (in the sun)

noun:

• the front page of an application blank

noun:

• abandoning old people, usu. in the mountains

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaw of death - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist sect originating in the seventh century

noun:

• the form and its shadow; things inseparable

noun:

• investigation (to determine the cause of something)

noun:

• shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family

noun:

• melt-in-the-mouth feeling

noun:

• Department of Defense (U.S.); the Pentagon

adverb:

• by today; before the day is over

noun:

• the three powers: heaven, earth and man

noun:

• the three calamities: fire, flood and storm

noun:

• recruit (former rank in the JSDF) - obsolete term

expression:

• at first; in the beginning; originally

noun:

• the favor (favour) of one's master

noun:

• people close to the head man

noun:

• finger marks; dirt from the hands

noun:

• divination (based on the Book of Changes) ➜ 易経

noun:

• double marriage (in the same family); intermarriage

noun:

• family of a soldier at the front

noun:

• all things in nature; the whole creation - four character idiom

noun:

• tathata (the ultimate nature of all things) - Buddhism term