noun:

• shogi game with the superior player playing without the kaku

noun:

• green tassel hung above the northeast corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• white tassel hung above the southwest corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• red tassel hung above the southeast corner of the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• conformism; following the crowd; swimming with the tide; me-tooism - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• opponent; adversary; the competition; the other side; one's enemy - four character idiom

noun:

• grasping the (main) point; seizing the essence (of a matter) - four character idiom

noun:

• company name with the words "kabushiki kaisha" at the end ➜ 前株

expression:

• in the early period (of something); at the beginning

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)

noun:

• Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

expression:

• (at the) last moment; (in the) nick of time

noun / ~する noun:

• stroll on the Ginza (i.e. the street)

noun:

• appreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

noun:

• depreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

noun:

• Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

noun:

• The Confederate States of America; The Confederacy; CSA

noun:

• writings about the gods
• Shinto scripture (e.g. the Kojiki)

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

expression:

• the biggest fish is always the one that got away - proverb

noun:

• Dictyoptera (order of insects comprising the cockroaches and the mantids)

noun:

• ukyounodaibu (title under the ritsuryo system at the imperial court) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• tempura soba without the noodles

expression:

• missing the vital element