noun:

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

noun:

• the three powers: heaven, earth and man

noun:

• three-sided mirror

expression:

• wearing light clothes for the sake of fashion

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the United States

noun:

• term used to refer to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling

noun:

• The Flea Waltz (piano piece); Der Flohwalzer; Chopsticks (UK)

expression:

• caution is the best policy - proverb

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• (phenomenon of) precession of the equinoxes

noun:

• court nobles and other courtiers allowed into the Imperial Palace - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be unequal to the burden (job); to be too heavy a load for

noun:

• on the first opportunity

noun:

• three-day feast of Chinese delicacies

noun:

• the next article; the next entry

expression:

• having the luck to escape trouble (your behaviour has landed you in)

noun:

• Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices - Buddhism term

noun:

• Failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term - four character idiom

noun:

• place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction - the へ is pronounced as え in this word - archaism ➜ 方違え・方塞がり

expression:

• being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish

noun:

• the edge at the very tip of a sword

noun:

• the iron industry

noun:

• landing in the face of the enemy; opposed landing

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to call the roll; to take attendance

noun:

• horizontally-wrapped fabric forming the bottom part of some traditional Japanese clothing