expression:

• person who is ignorant of the real world; frog in a well [literal]

noun:

• "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs - from アルバイト and salon - abbreviation

noun:

• dumplings offered to the moon (on the 15th day of the 8th month and the 13th day of the 9th month)

noun:

• summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

noun:

• large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.

noun:

• sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb

adverb:

• at the long end (e.g. hold); on the long side (e.g. cut) ➜ 長め

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• national interests and the people's welfare - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)
• to pass the baton; to hand on the torch - idiom

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

expression:

• the poor can't afford manners; only when basic needs for living are met can people spare the effort to be polite - proverb

expression / noun:

• passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons

noun:

• adherence to the shogunate

noun:

• Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to satisfy the requirements

noun:

• explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Jan. 28, 1986); Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

noun:

• Council Hall in the Imperial Palace

expression:

• I wish I could sink through the floor

noun:

• movement to defend the Constitution

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

noun:

• the Epistles (of the New Testament)

noun:

• break (change for the worse) in the weather