noun:

• one's grasp of the situation; knowing how matters stand - four character idiom

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• (being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post - four character idiom

noun:

• The Hundred Days (of Napoleon I); very short-lived regime - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

noun:

• Aceraceae; family of flowering plants including the maples ➜ 槭樹

noun:

• Caprifoliaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the honeysuckles

noun:

• Ebenaceae; family of flowering plants including the ebony

noun:

• Tiliaceae; family of flowering plants, incl. the linden

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have the memory of having done something oneself ➜ 身に覚えのある

noun:

• little tern (the official bird of Chiba); sterna albifrons

noun:

• center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas) - obscure term

noun:

• reinforcing "bolt" stitch across the bottom of a seam

noun:

• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to break on the shore and retreat (of a wave)

noun:

• string tied across the open chest of a haori

noun:

• new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

noun:

• parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

noun:

• coloured curtains hanging from the eaves of a Buddhist temple

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of the verb "kuru"

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of the verb "kuru" - abbreviation ➜ カ行変格活用

noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• stirrup (bone of the ear); stapes

noun:

• the sound of one hand clapping (a classic Zen koan) ➜ 公案

noun:

• corpus spongiosum (body of penile erecile tissue surrounding the urethra)