noun:

• beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥諷詠
• artistic pursuits involving nature themes

noun:

• night mooring (for a boat) ➜ 夜泊
• sleeping away for the night (esp. in a red light district)

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 企業短期経済観測調査【きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey - abbreviation ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• national holiday (by law, any weekday that falls between two other national holidays)

noun:

• dakuten; diacritic kana mark that turns an unvoiced consonant into a voiced consonant

noun:

• sliding or moving along a smooth surface with continuous contact on that surface

expression:

• fields and rice paddies that have been abandoned and are no longer cultivated

noun:

• daily life noise; household noises; noise that arises at home from everyday occurrences

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

expression / ~の noun:

• so far; up to now; hitherto

expression:

• that's enough (for today); it ends here

interjection:

• eh?; what?; oh?
• yes; that's correct ➜ はい

particle:

• strengthens a question, assertion, etc. - at sentence end - archaism ➜ かえ・ぞえ・わえ
• used when calling out to someone - after a noun, etc. - archaism

noun:

• high decorated building
• picture-perfect mansion; stately home that looks as if it were from a painting

noun:

• Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity") - obscure term ➜ オッカムの剃刀

noun / ~する noun:

• act of praying or performing an incantation so that a bad dream does not come true

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - From English "restaurant hotel"

noun:

• advance payment on behalf of a third party (with expectation that it will be reimbursed)

noun:

• the coming of Amida Buddha to welcome the spirits of the dead

noun:

• scenery seen on the morning of the first day of the year

noun:

• principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol
• the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter - humorous term

expression:

• room to breathe (usually in the negative as "no room to breathe") ➜ 立錐の余地もない

noun:

• a cold in the throat; common cold with a sore throat

expression / adjective:

• having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end; at one's wit's end