expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to act with extreme violence

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (cat)

noun / ~する noun:

• investigation to determine the cause (of); tracing something back to its origin

expression:

• mountain in springtime when all of the tree buds open at the same time; laughing mountain [literal] - poetical term

noun:

• the Marco Polo Bridge Incident

pre-noun adjectival:

• the usual; as it always is
• said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.)

adverb:

• in the usual way - archaism

expression:

• the early bird gets the worm - proverb

noun:

• series of holidays with one or two workdays in between - four character idiom

noun:

• match held in front of the Emperor - Sumo term

noun:

• the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun:

• trouble caused by a slip of the tongue

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• body covered with flames

noun / ~の noun:

• being in abstraction; being dazed; being absentminded; stargazing - four character idiom

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

noun:

• horse mackerel caught in autumn - obscure term

noun / adjectival noun:

• being scattered in all directions; being broken up and dispersed - four character idiom

noun:

• a tree as seen in winter (esp. a barren deciduous tree)
• evergreen tree

noun:

• master of the tea ceremony
• person with eccentric tastes

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have secret communication with; to have a tacit understanding with

noun:

• under the sod

noun:

• first flower of the season or year; first flowering on a plant
• first menstruation ［はつはな］
• woman who has just reached adulthood ［はつはな］

noun:

• in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se