noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term
• The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern) ［さんぞん］ ➜ 三尊天井
• the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• king of the hill; king of the castle; king of the mountain

noun:

• the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

noun:

• warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)

noun:

• water from the capital (Kyoto), rumored to have a whitening effect - archaism
• type of washing lotion from the end of the Edo period - archaism ➜ 化粧水

noun / ~の noun:

• being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody - four character idiom

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

noun / prefix noun:

• greater (of equal court ranks); upper; senior ➜ 従【じゅ】
• director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo period); chief ［しょう］ ➜ 長官【かみ】

prefix:

• exactly; precisely ［しょう］ - before a number

expression / noun:

• Day of the Rat (esp. the first Day of the Rat in the New Year)
• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots - abbreviation ➜ 子の日の遊び
• pine shoot pulled out in such a manner ➜ 子の日の松

noun:

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

noun:

• invoking the coercive power of the state; calling upon the power of the state

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

noun:

• fount of knowledge; the smart one (of a group of people); brains - idiom
• bag full of wisdom; bag containing all the world's wisdom

noun:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

noun:

• social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)

noun:

• alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty) - four character idiom ➜ 合従・連衡
• (tactic of) making & breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient - four character idiom

noun:

• the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine - Buddhism term ➜ 輪宝・転法輪

noun:

• custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice

expression:

• out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den [literal] - proverb

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

expression / ichidan verb:

• to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended

noun / ~する noun:

• the end of the match; the end of the game

noun:

• sense of the trend of the times; sensitivity to the changing times - four character idiom ➜ 時世感覚