expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall behind the times

noun:

• mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year ➜ 若水

noun:

• the cabinet minister in charge

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get on base - Baseball term

noun:

• the spiritual climate - four character idiom

noun:

• rice field in the charge of a nominal holder (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 名主【みょうしゅ】

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese) ➜ 慣用音

noun / ~する noun:

• rumbling and shaking of the earth - four character idiom

noun:

• sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru - Linguistics term ➜ ギャル

noun:

• rivalry over winning the right to host an event; competition to lure (attract, invite) (institutions, manufacturing facilities, foreign tourists, etc.) to a locality - four character idiom

expression:

• with the whole family

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

noun:

• concept that all things and phenomena reflect the truth - Buddhism term

noun:

• hot rice served with tenkasu and tempura dipping sauce on top - Food term ➜ 天かす

adverbial noun:

• in the future; from now on; henceforth; hereafter - archaism

noun:

• top of the shoulders; tip of the shoulder; collar ➜ 肩先

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• the end of the Cold War

noun:

• the sixteen arhats - Buddhism term

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

noun:

• the finder

noun:

• land of the barbarians

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term