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あらしをよぶarashiwoyobu Inflection

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

  • to cause a commotion; to create a big stir; to invoke a storm [literal]
みどころmidokoro

noun:

  • point worthy of note; highlight (e.g. in a film); thing to note
  • good prospects for the future; promise

umenohanaha今週konshuuga見所midokoroですdesu The plum blossoms are at their best this week.

がんgan

noun:

  • niche or alcove for an image
  • (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard
こちらのはなしkochiranohanashi

expression:

  • matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
  • our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)
もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむmonzennokozounarawanukyouwoyomu

expression:

  • you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught [literal] - proverb
ヨモギぞくYOMOGIzokuよもぎぞくyomogizoku

noun:

  • Artemisia (genus of a between 200 to 400 species of plants in the daisy family Asteraceae) アルテミシア属
カットオーバーKATTOOOBAAカットオーバKATTOOOBA

noun:

  • cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term
てらうけせいどteraukeseido

noun:

  • system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith
じだんせいどjidanseido

noun:

  • system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith 寺請制度
きつねのまどkitsunenomado

noun:

  • way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]
もんぜんのこぞうmonzennokozou

expression:

クラークすうKURAAKUsuu

noun:

  • Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term
かいほうkaihou Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open
  • opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access

このkononiwaha一般にippanni開放kaihouされていますsareteimasu This garden is open to the public.

タイムセールTAIMUSEERUタイム・セールTAIMU/SEERU

noun:

  • special offers available for a limited time of the day; limited-time sale - From English "time sale"
さんきんこうたいsankinkoutaiateji

noun:

  • daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)
むこうじょうめんmukoujoumen

noun:

  • opposite the front; front seats in a theater; stalls; orchestra seats
  • (seat facing) south side of ring - Sumo term
かわせがきkawasegaki

noun:

  • Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom
こうしkoushi

noun:

  • whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle 鏑矢
  • start (e.g. of a movement); beginning; dawn
たいおうせつtaiousetsu

noun:

  • correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) 整合説
きんつばやきkintsubayaki

noun:

  • confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard)
しおばなshiobanaold

noun:

  • purifying salt 塩花・鹽花 - archaism
  • pile of salt placed by the door of a shop or restaurant 塩花・鹽花
  • whitecap
じかんjikan

noun:

  • problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times
すだれあたまsudareatama

noun:

ぎょくがんgyokugan

noun:

  • eyes made of crystal, glass, etc. inserted into the head of a Buddhist statue
  • beautiful female eyes
しょうちょうshouchouしょうていshoutei

noun:

  • men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryo system) - archaism

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