noun:

• waste of money ➜ 安物買いの銭失い【やすものがいのぜにうしない】

noun:

• liquidation of speculative accounts

noun:

• succession to or inheritance of property

noun:

• number of days (times) one has attended

noun:

• proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

noun:

• humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy ➜ 謙譲語Ｉ

noun:

• truth of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四諦

noun:

• Gospel of Thomas (apocryphal) (book of the Bible)

noun:

• land of the barbarians

expression:

• although there are many of them

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun:

• upper wing of a plane

expression:

• in time of need; for a rainy day; in case of emergency

noun / ~する noun:

• generation of electricity

expression / noun:

• summer campaign of the siege of Osaka (1615 CE) ➜ 大坂冬の陣

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

expression:

• of all people

noun:

• number of people
• denominate number
• the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world" ➜ 三筆・四天王

expression / godan ~う verb (spec.):

• to make an appeal to the confidence of

noun:

• lantern hanging from the eaves of a temple or shrine ➜ 釣り灯籠

noun:

• War of 1812

noun:

• an excuse; however; nonetheless

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun:

• edge of town; outskirts of a village

noun:

• typical dress of the military class, usually worn together with a hakama ➜ 袴