expression:

• crazy deed; unbelievable deed; the height of madness; act of sheer madness - colloquialism

expression:

• experience is the best teacher; custom makes all things easy; you learn best by doing; practice makes perfect; it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught [literal]

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; to have evidence; to get a lead - idiom
• to grab by the tail [literal]

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:

• deepest level (of an art, skill, etc.); secret teachings; mysteries; innermost secrets; the secret (of success, etc.)

noun:

• 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall ➜ 小春日和

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

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:

• dyeing of degummed silk; dyeing of raw silk at the same time as degumming

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one yen will cry at one yen [literal] - proverb

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

noun:

• gathering place
• labour camp for drifters, criminals, etc. (Edo period) - abbreviation ➜ 人足寄場
• entertainment hall (for rakugo, manzai, magic, music, etc.); vaudeville theater (theatre); music hall ➜ 寄席

suffix / godan ~く verb:

• to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...

godan ~く verb:

• to jerk off; to masturbate - vulgar - colloquialism

noun:

• On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin, 1859); origin of species

noun:

• being something of an artist; having something of the artist in one - four character idiom

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

noun:

• guardian deity of grain farming; guardian deity of the rice harvest

noun:

• system of Japanese provinces under the ritsuryo system; ancient provinces of Japan ➜ 律令【りつりょう】

noun:

• National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC

noun:

• National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC - abbreviation ➜ 全国人民代表大会