noun:

• capital (of a column) - Architecture term
• stigma; top part of the pistil in a flower - Biology term

noun / ~する noun:

• admission by a defendant of the justice of a plaintiff's case; cognovit

noun:

• coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

noun:

• chief (of police); head (of office)

expression:

• tomorrow will take care of itself; let the morn come and the meat with it; tomorrow, the winds of tomorrow will blow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan

interjection:

• yes ➜ はい

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あゆの風【あゆのかぜ】

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あいの風

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan ➜ あいの風

noun:

• late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year ➜ 二百十日・二百二十日・台風
• name of the 28th roll of the Genji monogatari

noun:

• thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot ➜ 絹皮【きぬかわ】

expression:

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

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead [literal]

expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

noun:

• block (of land)

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• words and deeds of the people of yore - four character idiom

expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞