noun:

• arrowhead
• target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack)
• the very moment (when); the point (of doing) ➜ 矢先に

noun:

• Buddhist term
• teaching of the Buddha; saying of the Buddha; words of the Buddha

noun:

• Aegukga; national anthem of South Korea
• Aegukka; national anthem of North Korea; The Patriotic Song; Let Morning Shine
• The Patriotic Song; national anthem of the Russian SFSR and of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 2000

noun / ~する noun:

• original text with its translation printed side by side or on opposite page

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

expression / noun:

• flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; passage of time; stream of time
• current of the times; trend of the times

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• distorted; crooked; irregular; warped

noun / adjectival noun:

• oval; elliptical shape

noun:

• round, wooden container for cooked rice ➜ 飯櫃【めしびつ】
• oval coin

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

adverb:

• too; also; likewise; either ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• still; as before ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• even so; either way; after all; nonetheless; in any event; all the same ➜ 矢張り【やはり】
• as expected ➜ 矢張り【やはり】

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji with a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

noun:

• main gate; front gate - obscure term
• latter half of the Lotus Sutra, which describes the nature of the Buddha - Buddhism term ➜ 迹門

noun:

• 13th day (of the moon); the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month

noun:

• New Year's holiday; period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the New Year - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• 24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• refusal to accept the present situation; denial of the existing situation; negation of the status quo - four character idiom

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句・重陽【ちょうよう】

noun:

• day of Ten'ichijin's first ascension to heaven in a year (the 30th day of the first sexagenary cycle of the year) - obscure term ➜ 天一神・天一天上・癸巳

noun:

• eight-tenths
• casting someone out
• type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up eight-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg ➜ 鳶ズボン

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• since the era of the Emperor Jinmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented - four character idiom

noun:

• Matsuo Basho remembrance day (12th day of the 10th lunar month, associated with the change of the seasons)

noun:

• Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan; Yomna - Buddhism term