noun:

• the state (degree) of congestion; how bad traffic jams are - four character idiom

noun:

• one's grasp of the situation; knowing how matters stand - four character idiom

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• (being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post - four character idiom

noun:

• winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• feeling a little drunk with the New Year's sake - four character idiom

noun:

• The Hundred Days (of Napoleon I); very short-lived regime - four character idiom

noun:

• lintel (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door) - Architecture term ➜ 蹴放し

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

noun:

• Aceraceae; family of flowering plants including the maples ➜ 槭樹

noun:

• Caprifoliaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the honeysuckles

noun:

• Ebenaceae; family of flowering plants including the ebony

noun:

• Tiliaceae; family of flowering plants, incl. the linden

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"

noun:

• chopsticks (often written on the paper wrapper)

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have the memory of having done something oneself ➜ 身に覚えのある

noun:

• little tern (the official bird of Chiba); sterna albifrons

noun:

• Mycobacterium leprae; the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease (leprosy)

expression:

• cheap fish for the masses (e.g. sardines, mackerel, pike)

noun:

• center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas) - obscure term

noun:

• reinforcing "bolt" stitch across the bottom of a seam

noun:

• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"

noun:

• language used in red-light districts during the Edo period ➜ 郭言葉

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)