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- 嵐を呼ぶ【あらしをよぶ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~ぶ verb:
- to cause a commotion; to create a big stir; to invoke a storm [literal]
- 見所☆【みどころ】見どころ☆・見処
noun:
- point worthy of note; highlight (e.g. in a film); thing to note
- good prospects for the future; promise
- 龕【がん】
noun:
- niche or alcove for an image
- (in Okinawa) portable shrine used to move a deceased from their house to the graveyard
- こちらの話【こちらのはなし】此方の話
expression:
- matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation)
- our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)
- 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】
expression:
- you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught [literal] - proverb
- カットオーバー・カットオーバ
noun:
- cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term
- 寺請制度【てらうけせいど】
noun:
- system used during the Edo era where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith
- 寺檀制度【じだんせいど】
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
- 狐の窓【きつねのまど】
noun:
- way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]
- 門前の小僧【もんぜんのこぞう】
expression:
- you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught) [literal] - proverb - abbreviation ➜ 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】
- クラーク数【クラークすう】
noun:
- Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term
- 開放★【かいほう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open
- opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access
- タイムセール☆・タイム・セール
noun:
- special offers available for a limited time of the day; limited-time sale - From English "time sale"
- 参勤交代【さんきんこうたい】参覲交代ateji・参勤交替
noun:
- daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)
- 向こう正面【むこうじょうめん】
noun:
- opposite the front; front seats in a theater; stalls; orchestra seats
- (seat facing) south side of ring - Sumo term
- 川施餓鬼【かわせがき】
noun:
- Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom
- 嚆矢【こうし】
noun:
- whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle ➜ 鏑矢
- start (e.g. of a movement); beginning; dawn
- 対応説【たいおうせつ】
noun:
- correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説
- 金鍔焼き【きんつばやき】金鍔焼
noun:
- confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard)
- 塩花【しおばな】潮花・鹽花old
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
- 時艱【じかん】
noun:
- problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times
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