noun:

• Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

adverb:

• now is the time

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to carry (a child) on one's back; to piggyback
• to take on (a job, responsibility, etc.) - archaism

expression:

• a run on a bank

noun:

• continuance into the New Year - obscure term

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on flesh; to get fat; to gain weight

noun:

• twenty-first day of the month
• twenty-one days

noun:

• War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

noun:

• Budget Committee of the lower house of the Diet (one half of the yosaniinkai) - abbreviation ➜ 衆院予算委員会

noun:

• the three powers: heaven, earth and man

expression:

• wearing light clothes for the sake of fashion

noun:

• rankings written on paper - Sumo term

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the United States

noun:

• term used to refer to Japanese-American children (nisei) who were sent by their parents to Japan before WW2 to receive their schooling

noun:

• The Flea Waltz (piano piece); Der Flohwalzer; Chopsticks (UK)

expression:

• caution is the best policy - proverb

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• (phenomenon of) precession of the equinoxes

noun:

• specimen prepared on a glass slide for use with a microscope - From German "Präparat"

noun:

• court nobles and other courtiers allowed into the Imperial Palace - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to be unequal to the burden (job); to be too heavy a load for

noun:

• on the first opportunity

noun:

• the next article; the next entry

suffix noun:

• depending on; dependent upon; relying on ➜ 頼み【たのみ】

expression:

• having the luck to escape trouble (your behaviour has landed you in)