noun:

• bodily injury caused by negligence in the conduct of business; accidental infliction of injury in the conduct of business - Law term

expression:

• spare the rod and spoil the child; if you love your children, send them out into the world [literal] - proverb

noun:

• twenty-first of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• a drop in the bucket (ocean); a small fraction (of); trifle - four character idiom

noun:

• kami of the three main Kumano shrines ➜ 熊野三所権現

noun:

• picture depicting the everyday life of commoners

noun:

• one of the accent patterns of Japanese words, with a rising and then falling pitch

noun:

• first adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony)

noun:

• using the sleeves of one's kimono as a pillow - archaism

expression:

• Life and death are the two faces of the same coin - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to insist on one's own ideas

expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

noun:

• very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

noun:

• vents at the hips of a pair of hakama

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to read the situation; to sense the mood

noun:

• the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state - four character idiom

noun:

• driving on the left side of the road; driving on the left-hand side of the road; left-hand side driving ➜ 右側通行

noun:

• the Five Continents

noun:

• video-on-demand

noun:

• Zen Buddhism based on the original teachings of Buddha ➜ 祖師禅

noun / ~する noun:

• toughening the law; making the law stricter

noun:

• the Creator; Maker

noun:

• beans of the bean-scattering ceremony

noun:

• statue of a figure sitting contemplatively in the half lotus position (often of Maitreya) - Buddhism term ➜ 弥勒菩薩

noun:

• string tied across the open chest of a haori