noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun / ~する noun:

• spreading the legs (wide apart); opening the legs Antonym: 閉脚【へいきゃく】

noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)

noun:

• the ten good acts - Buddhism term ➜ 十悪
• the emperor ➜ 十善の君

noun:

• the monotremes

noun:

• BRIC, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), referring especially to the fast-growing economies of these countries

particle:

• particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information

expression / godan ~る verb:

• depending on the ...; to depend on the ... ➜ 如何【いかん】

noun:

• hemorrage in the fundus of the eye

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

noun:

• the right to submit a bill (draft law) to parliament

noun:

• domination of the world; world hegemony; world domination ➜ 世界征服

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu"; "na" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• the five skandhas (the five aggregates: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun / ~する noun:

• attacking the shogunate

noun:

• circumstances of the office

noun:

• middle-of-the-roaders; neutrals

noun:

• the other party (usu. in business); person or party with whom you are dealing (on the other end)

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• twenty-seventh day of the month
• twenty-seven days

noun:

• sweeping view of the eye; boundless expanse - four character idiom