expression:

• the bounds of reason; the limits of (common) sense

noun:

• minister outside the cabinet; junior minister

adverb:

• in this way; like this

~の noun:

• on the way home from work

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get flunked in an examination ➜ 撥ねる【はねる】

noun:

• debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) - archaism

noun:

• food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot - Food term

noun:

• (appearance while) in pajamas (pyjamas)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be charged with a mission

noun:

• the same thing

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to rank with; to rank among ➜ 伍する

noun:

• wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll

noun:

• seventeenth day of the month
• seventeen days

noun:

• buckwheat noodles in hot broth

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• the Satsuma Rebellion

noun:

• ceremonial sake decanter with a spout and semicircular handle

noun:

• writings about the gods
• Shinto scripture (e.g. the Kojiki)

noun:

• common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)

noun:

• cards with words or phrases written on them, used in Japanese karuta games ➜ 取り札

noun:

• rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same stable - Sumo term

expression:

• the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one - proverb

expression:

• strike while the iron is hot - proverb

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to take the side of the enemy

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning