noun:

• the nine principal points in a game of go

adjectival noun:

• the age of wisdom; around forty

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• dish placed on the far side of the serving table (kaiseki cuisine); side dishes at a banquet (e.g. sashimi, salad, vinegared dish; not rice or soup) - Food term ➜ 懐石
• resting one's forehead on the chest of one's opponent and grabbing his belt - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• dropping medicine in the eyes

noun:

• merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period ➜ 文化文政時代

noun:

• the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas) - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 八部衆

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make oneself known to the public; to become popular; to gain influence

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to violate the law

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun:

• excess of fold beyond the stitching seam

noun:

• taking the entrance examination for a school without regard for one's chances of passing

noun:

• tempura soba without the noodles

expression:

• missing the vital element

expression:

• starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught - proverb ➜ 泥縄【どろなわ】・泥縄式【どろなわしき】

noun / ~の noun:

• on the board (shogi, go, etc.)

noun:

• the economic boom of 1958-1961 - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• chiefly on the basis of someone's personal character - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to do the job; to do the business

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow; ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow ➜ 雪折れ

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "o" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音

noun:

• on the verge of sleep; just after falling asleep

noun:

• glorious reign of the Emperor

noun:

• beginning of the year