Results, lit: if the wind blows the bucket makers prosper

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バケツリレーこうげきBAKETSURIREEkougeki

noun:

だいじのまえのしょうじdaijinomaenoshouji

expression:

  • don't put the trivial ahead of the important; don't sweat the small stuff; don't bother with the details (before embarking on a great enterprise) - proverb
  • read the fine print; be careful of the small things (before embarking on a great enterprise) - proverb
ししょくていりshishokuteiriよんしょくていりyonshokuteiri

noun:

  • four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)
らくだいrakudai Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • failure (in an examination); failing to advance (to the next year) Antonym: 及第
  • falling short of the standard; not making the grade

karehaいつもitsumo遊んでいたasondeitaためtame落第rakudaiしたshita He failed by playing all the time.

さいぶんsaibunさいもんsaimon

noun:

  • address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era
あんごango Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term
おうてんもんのへんoutenmonnohen

noun:

  • Otenmon conspiracy (political incident in 866CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace) - archaism
いんじうちinjiuchi

noun:

  • big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)
いんじinji

noun:

  • big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages) - abbreviation 印地打ち
えじejiえいしeishi

noun:

  • soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
  • term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
  • guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there
ちゅうしんぐらchuushingura

noun:

  • performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) 浄瑠璃
ろうrou

noun:

  • year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
  • becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience
れんだrenda Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • repeated blows; striking repeatedly; barrage
  • consecutive hits (e.g. boxing, baseball)
ろじょうrojou

noun:

  • (on the) road; (on the) way; (in the) street

路上rojouno血痕kekkonhaorenoものmonoに違いないnichigainai The blood on the road must be mine.

ぜんかんzenkan

noun:

  • the whole reel; the whole volume; the complete set
てきぜんtekizen

noun:

  • in the face of the enemy; before the enemy
はっこうhakkou

noun:

  • the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world
まつねんmatsunen

noun:

  • the last days; the final years; the last generation
こくみんせいかつkokuminseikatsu

noun:

  • the life of the people; the people's living

政治seijiha国民生活kokuminseikatsuni深い関係fukaikankeigaあるaru Politics has much to do with me.

きゅうばくじだいkyuubakujidai

noun:

  • the shogunate period; the days of the shogunate regime - four character idiom
れきほんrekihon

noun:

  • books related to the calendar; the calendar; the almanac
沿みちぞいmichizoi

~の noun / noun:

  • along the road; at the side of the road
わきあけwakiake

noun:

  • robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom 闕腋の袍
  • small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) 八つ口
ずばzubaずんばzunbaずはzuha

expression:

  • if it is not ...; if it does not ... - after the -nai stem of a verb; ずは is now pronounced ずわ - archaism
でばなをくじくdebanawokujikuではなをくじくdehanawokujikuでばなをくじくdebanawokujikuではなをくじくdehanawokujiku Inflection

expression / godan ~く verb:

  • to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

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