noun:

• criminal's head on public display; displaying a beheaded head; beheaded head

noun:

• having food stuck around the mouth; having food all over the face

expression:

• putting the cart before the horse; putting the diapers on before (the baby) is born [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• frowning on; looking on with scorn; showing disapproval

noun:

• leaving (fleeing) the capital

noun:

• the lower classes; the common people

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 御旅所

expression / noun:

• the last moment; the very end

noun:

• the total

ichidan verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close

noun:

• reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree - Shintō term

noun:

• the 48 basic techniques - four character idiom - Sumo term
• every trick in the book
• the 48 basic sexual positions - colloquialism

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to live by the pen

noun:

• rising diagonally up and to the right
• growing; expanding; soaring

noun:

• on-the-job training; OJT ➜ オンザジョブトレーニング

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers ➜ 単鉤法

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• government of the Qing dynasty; Qing government

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do an act of benevolence at the sacrifice of oneself

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• very much out in the open (as in a information)

noun / ~する noun:

• air bath

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】