noun:

• small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage
• small garden gate ➜ 小門

noun:

• line of spears held at the ready

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to the service of one's master

noun:

• buildings on the east and west side of the southern pond (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り

noun / ~の noun:

• bones of the palm (esp. the metacarpals, but sometimes also including the carpals) - obscure term ➜ 中手骨

noun:

• person who lives on the water

noun:

• Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1952-1972)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to go to the bathroom; to go to the restroom; to excuse oneself

noun:

• lettering on the spine of a book

adjective:

• (feeling of) tightness in the chest

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

noun:

• one of the leading private schools

noun:

• the spoils system

expression:

• to the end; to the last

expression:

• When in Rome, do as the Romans do - proverb ➜ 郷に入っては郷に従え

noun:

• the four stages of existence: birth, life, death, and limbo - Buddhism term

noun:

• purification of the six roots of perception - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• neither one thing nor the other; too short for a belt, too long for a sleeve tie [literal]

expression / noun:

• the Fall of Man (in Christian theology); the Fall

noun:

• three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament - Sumo term ➜ 殊勲賞・敢闘賞・技能賞

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

noun:

• anniversary of the end of a war

noun:

• legendary military invasion of Korea in the 3rd century - archaism

adverb / ~の noun:

• the same as it was long ago; unchanged; traditional

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• one's prosperity being on the rise; one's fortune reaching its culmination - four character idiom