noun:

• kanji radical 35 when at the bottom (as in the character for summer)

noun:

• Australia, New Zealand and the United States; ANZUS ➜ アンザス条約

noun:

• the international arena - four character idiom

noun:

• common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• the present year; at that time

noun:

• curry soup with rice - From English "soup curry"

noun:

• end of the year or season; year end

noun:

• cylindrical seat made of straw covered in fabric - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put in a word for; to second; to support

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

noun:

• secret aid by the gods

noun:

• the Five Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi) ➜ 四畿内

noun:

• wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

expression:

• on the contrary

noun:

• police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site ➜ 地取り・聞き込み捜査

expression / ichidan verb:

• to know much of the world

adverb:

• throughout the year; all the year round; always - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• equal to the current record (in sports, etc.)

noun:

• single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts - e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

~と adverb / adverb:

• with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter - onomatopoeia ➜ ぴくっと

noun:

• leaving the (repair) dock

expression:

• with one's eyes flashing

noun:

• chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment

noun:

• dressing (vegetables, fish, etc.) with vinegar; vegetables (or fish, etc.) dressed with vinegar