noun:

• carriage beautifully decorated with gold, silver, gems, etc., for use by Heian era nobles at festivals and like activities

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】

expression:

• the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• port-in; port in

expression / ~の noun / noun:

• behind with everything; too late; reactive

noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

noun:

• direct call facility - IT term

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

noun:

• first star of the Big Dipper
• top applicant in the civil service examination (Imperial China) - archaism

noun:

• golfer with a single-figure handicap - Sports term - From English "single player"

noun:

• senior female worker who supervises junior employees in a domineering fashion - colloquialism ➜ 御局

noun:

• Direct Access Storage Device; DASD - IT term

noun:

• writing in red

noun:

• circle painted with a single stroke in Zen calligraphy

expression:

• apologies for writing to you without either of us following the other - abbr. of ＦＦ外から失礼します; used on twitter - slang

noun:

• President of the United States of America; US President

noun / ~の noun:

• recalling the old days; nostalgia; reminiscences

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

noun:

• the five cardinal Confucian virtues (justice, politeness, wisdom, fidelity and benevolence)

expression:

• at the time of (ind. opportunity or situation where something should be done)

noun:

• the publishing world

expression / adjective:

• bright even in the dark; clearly visible at night

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in ruins; to be dilapidated; to be desolated - because shepherd's purse is a weed that often grows in abandoned areas - idiom ➜ ぺんぺん草【ぺんぺんぐさ】

noun:

• name of ancient country located in the modern Fukuoka prefecture

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to put into the mouth; to eat