noun:

• post-retirement return to one's home town and carrying out agricultural pursuits

noun:

• one's second son ➜ 次男【じなん】
• man between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 少丁

noun:

• flowers and water offered to Buddha - Buddhism term
• irrigation of a rice field during flowering

noun:

• Wotan (god in German and Anglo-Saxon mythology); Wodan ➜ オーディン

noun:

• yu; free reed wind instrument used in ancient China and Nara period Japan

expression:

• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

expression:

• life has its ups and downs; he who falls today may rise tomorrow - proverb

noun:

• treating a metal surface to make it look worn and aged; antique finish

noun / suffix noun:

• just before; on the verge of; on the brink of
• just in front of; just ahead of

noun:

• interior of the womb (of a pregnant woman); interior of the uterus
• interior of a Buddhistic statue

auxiliary verb:

• used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader) - polite language ➜ ませ
• used to indicate respect for those affected by the action - archaism - humble language

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal]

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal] ➜ いたちの道

noun:

• the first half-year; first half of the year

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be sunburnt; to fade (in the sun); to glow red (i.e. of the sky at sunset) ［焼ける］
• to be jealous; to be envious

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

noun:

• nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); foreigner of Japanese parentage

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• the Second (king, etc. of the same name); second generation; junior

noun:

• son - colloquialism

noun:

• sohal surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal, species of tang found from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf); Red Sea surgeonfish; sohal tang

noun:

• performing a rakugo story on the spot based on three topics given by the audience; impromptu rakugo story based on three subjects

expression:

• the word of a wise man is worth the words of one thousand fools; one thousand chirps of sparrows, one cry of a crane [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun:

• scent of a flower floating about in the air; lingering scent of a flower in the darkness

expression:

• curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange