expression:

• good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile - from Chinese 打開笑門福自來 - four character idiom ➜ 笑う門には福来る

noun:

• children's game in which one skips on one leg

noun:

• giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 降り【おり】

noun:

• the avant-garde

noun:

• counterattack while evading the opponent's attack (kendo) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• first eastern wind of the year; first eastern wind of the spring

noun:

• small mochi placed on top of a big mochi
• two things heaped together

noun:

• the Court

noun:

• leaving the palace

noun:

• the active; active voice - Linguistics term ➜ 能動

noun:

• being buried in the same grave

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers; rulers apprehending the views of those they govern - archaism

noun:

• on-the-spot investigation

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be the same; to coincide; to correspond - from 同じくする, as 〜を同じゅうする

noun:

• tiles used to cover nail holes in cypress bark roofing for the purpose of waterproofing

noun:

• the early church; the primitive church

noun:

• daimyo in the Warring States period - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• equality before the law; equality under the law

expression:

• waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; When the sky falls, we shall catch larks - four character idiom

noun:

• sparrows flocking on ripening rice fields - obscure term

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

noun:

• making replacements for defensive purposes in the late inning of a game - Baseball term

noun:

• in the prime of manhood

noun:

• add-on telephone