noun:

• air or vapour in the soil (vapor)
• electrical earth; ground

noun:

• sacred items buried in the ring during its ritual purification - Sumo term

noun:

• maelstrom; the state of affairs being in great turmoil - four character idiom

expression:

• people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood - four character idiom

noun:

• (the two sides) being evenly-matched in influence or power - four character idiom

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"

noun:

• language used in red-light districts during the Edo period ➜ 郭言葉

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

~と adverb / adverb:

• flutter; flap; sound of something light moving in the wind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• hypercholesterolemia; hypercholesterolaemia (excess of cholesterol in the bloodstream)

noun:

• medial; final-head (glide before the center vowel in Chinese)

expression:

• something indistinguishable or indistinct (like an egret in the snow) - obscure term

noun:

• slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin

noun:

• Plectranthus inflexus (species of plant in the mint family)

noun:

• correct meditative activity (in Jodo, saying the name of Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 阿弥陀仏・浄土宗

noun / ~する noun:

• universal illumination (esp. in Buddhism, by the dharma-body) ➜ 法身

expression / ~と adverb:

• without making waves; softly; (like) a willow in the wind [literal] - idiom

noun:

• sexual harassment from colleagues in the work environment

noun:

• fingerspelling (in sign language for the deaf); finger alphabet

noun:

• torture in which the victim is whipped with arrow shafts

noun:

• type of picture book popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• name of ancient country located in the modern Fukuoka prefecture

noun:

• alias for fox (from a statue in the Inarimae shrine)

noun:

• cutting off the nose (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism ➜ 五刑