noun:

• BBD; Bucket Bridge Device - IT term

noun:

• bucket seat

noun:

• grab bucket

noun:

• bucket brigade - From English "bucket relay"

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 参院予算委員会

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 衆院予算委員会

noun:

• inscription on the bathtub of King Tang ("If you can renovate yourself one day, then you can do so every day, and keep doing so day after day.")

expression:

• to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture - proverb

noun:

• the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period ➜ 南都六宗

pronoun:

• that way (direction distant from the speaker, close to the listener) ➜ 何方【どちら】・此方【こちら】・彼方【あちら】
• there (place distant from the speaker, close to the listener)
• that one (something close to the listener)
• you; your family; your company
• that person (someone close to the listener)

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for favorable wind; waiting for favourable wind

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism

expression / adverb:

• with great relief; as if meeting a friend in need; as if having met a Buddha in hell [literal] - idiom

noun:

• note written on the reverse of the right side of an ancient document (memorandum or explanation of the contents) - archaism

noun:

• number of people
• denominate number
• the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world" ➜ 三筆・四天王

noun:

• continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar)
• roadside lamp that stays lit all night

noun:

• Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

noun:

• the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; moving in the wrong direction; running counter to (e.g. the laws of nature); running against (e.g. the tide of the times) Antonym: 順行
• retrogradation; retrogression - Astronomy term

noun:

• the seven spring flowers - abbreviation ➜ 春の七草
• the seven fall flowers; the seven autumn flowers - abbreviation ➜ 秋の七草
• the seventh of January; Festival of Seven Herbs - abbreviation ➜ 七草の節句

noun:

• this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker); this direction ➜ 何方【どちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• here (place close to the speaker or where the speaker is)
• this one (something physically close to the speaker)

pronoun:

• I; me; we; us
• this person (someone physically close to the speaker and of equal or higher status)

noun:

• straggling hair; hair too short to be tied or arranged with the rest of the hair (typically around the sideburns); lovelock ➜ 後れ毛