expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a ceremonial hand movement when receiving the monetary award - Sumo term

expression:

• 10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事渺茫

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's dress (e.g. at the wedding reception)

noun:

• annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

noun:

• game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) - four character idiom

expression:

• Wrong and right are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom

expression:

• Good and evil are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• Blossoms fall and leaves scatter; the evanescence (impermanence) of worldly things - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• unenlightened; in the darkest ignorance; not knowing from A to B - four character idiom

adverbial noun / noun:

• within the next couple of days; in a day or two - four character idiom

noun:

• Cercidiphyllaceae; monotypic plant family containing the katsura trees ➜ 桂【かつら】

noun:

• Lamiaceae; Labiatae; family of flowering plants comprising the mints

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• era name selected by commoners (as opposed to the imperial court) - obscure term

noun:

• Kentoku era (of the Southern Court) (1370.7.24-1372.4.?)

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

noun:

• empty (e.g. intermodal containers in the transport industry) - abbreviation ➜ 実入り【みいり】

adverb:

• secretly; behind someone's back; unbeknownst to the parties involved

particle:

• particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information

noun:

• system allowing for election of the prime minister by popular vote