expression:

• preaching to the deaf; reading the nenbutsu into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 念仏

noun:

• chamfering; beveling; bevelling
• rounding the edges (of a vegetable); trimming the corners

noun:

• poem written by the Emperor or a member of the imperial family

noun:

• Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

noun:

• grammatical rule allowing the usage of the continuative form as a conjunction

noun:

• the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person) - four character idiom

noun:

• adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear ➜ 臨機応変

noun:

• rushing to get on the train (bus, etc.) before the door closes

noun:

• Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible) - obscure term ➜ コリント人への手紙

noun:

• Epistle to the Corinthians (comprising two books of the Bible)

noun:

• equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

expression:

• nobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh [literal] - proverb

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• Carcharhinus (the type genus of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)

noun:

• Struthioniformes; order comprising the ratites (sometimes spec. only the ostriches)

noun:

• flag used at funerals showing the name and rank of the deceased

noun:

• backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

noun:

• high-quality buckwheat flour (made only using the center of the grain)

noun:

• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to buy - humble language ➜ 貰う
• to eat; to drink - humble language - polite language
• to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head); to have (on top) - orig. meaning
• to have (as one's leader); to live under (a ruler); to install (a president)

auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:

• to get somebody to do something - follows a verb in "-te" form - humble language ➜ 貰う【もらう】

expression:

• but he has to be handsome; that said, only if he's a looker; phrase poking fun at people describing their ideal male partner, as a postscript - humorous term

noun:

• classical form of i-adjective inflection (easily recognized by its attributive form ending in "ki" and predicative form ending in "shi")