noun / ~する noun:

• conveying the views of the subordinates to the rulers ➜ 下達上通・上達

expression:

• the frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean - proverb

noun:

• Hades; the underworld; the other world; realm of the dead - Buddhism term

noun:

• the part of the fruit from which the flower has dropped

noun:

• ruling the times; holding sway over the minds of the people - four character idiom

noun:

• land under the control of the imperial household or the shogunate

expression:

• the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son - proverb

noun:

• penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• penitence sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• guidebook to penitence - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• attending someone through the night (guard, nurse)
• act of a woman sleeping with a man (at his bidding)
• keeping overnight vigil over body before burial

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) ➜ 七曜
• Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine ➜ 真鰯

adverb:

• still some way to go before the goal; still more to come; much more; not yet

noun:

• public affairs; the court; the shogun; the shogunate

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗星

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - abbreviation - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星

noun:

• kanji in which one element suggests the meaning, the other the pronunciation

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - proverb ➜ 隣の芝生は青い

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

expression:

• the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through; the long arm of the law doesn't reach everywhere; fishes big enough to eat boats aren't caught by the net [literal] - proverb

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom