expression:

• The world is covered in darkness; All is plunged into darkness - four character idiom

noun:

• crow in winter ➜ 寒鴉

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• openly and in broad daylight - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to put one's life on the line ➜ 命を張る

noun:

• the whole year; all the year

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand in a line; to stand in a row
• to be equal

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• the surface reason

expression / ichidan verb:

• to change the position of

noun:

• information on space availability in a parking lot (car park) - four character idiom

noun:

• side of the breast; sideboob; side-boob ➜ 横パイ

noun:

• the morning after (having slept together) - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• the New Year dawns ➜ 年明ける

noun:

• poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

noun:

• the path of one's life

expression:

• the past; bygone days (years, age, etc.) ➜ 来し方
• the course (route) one has come by; the direction one came from

noun:

• soba made with only soba flour ➜ 二八蕎麦

noun:

• the Gulf War

noun:

• debtor-in-possession financing

noun:

• step in a Japanese entranceway

noun:

• historical system whereby the Hida region provided 10 carpenters per village the central government in place of taxes

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to strike at the root of an evil

noun:

• the first

noun:

• the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not" - four character idiom

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom - obscure term ➜ 猿袴