noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort - obscure term ➜ 三后

noun:

• Heian era court lady's song (accompanying men's oouta); court lady singing a kouta ➜ 大歌
• ditty; ballad; short, hummable, popular tune from Muromachi era to early Edo era ➜ 小唄・端唄
• kyogen kouta; style of kyogen song based on the Muromachi songs, often love ballad
• noh kouta; unusual style of noh song based on the Muromachi songs

expression / adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done; at the striped mullet's ultimate maturity (when the striped mullet is fully grown) [literal] ➜ 鯔【とど】

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be cloying; to be sick and tired with; to be disgusted with; to get up someone's nose
• to stink

noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

expression:

• A single seed can eventually produce a great harvest; Even the smallest beginning can generate a greatest profit; Watch the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves - four character idiom

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

~と adverb / adverb:

• ticktock - onomatopoeia
• chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; clicking; clacking; clattering - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dry and hard; (frozen) stiff - onomatopoeia
• hidebound; die-hard; stubborn; obstinate; bigoted - onomatopoeia
• scared stiff; tense; nervous; frightened - onomatopoeia

noun:

• match where the umpire disqualifies the coach and one player after the player has done something dangerous (such as hit by pitch; to prevent retaliation by the opposing team) - Baseball term

noun:

• bench used by kabuki actors during performance ［合い引き・合引き］
• for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time
• responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for

noun:

• sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in Chinese astrology)
• 12-year Chinese zodiac

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to take a handful of; to grab and throw
• to turn someone out (of house, room, etc.)

expression:

• might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus
• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being) ［しゃち］ - abbreviation ➜ 鯱【しゃちほこ】

noun:

• ethics; moral philosophy
• (the study of) Confucianism (esp. neo-Confucianism)
• (the study of) Taoism
• Edo-period popularized blend of Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings (popularised) ➜ 石門心学

noun / ~の noun:

• ideal
• ideal in a ring (i.e. subset of a ring closed under addition and multiplication by elements of the ambient ring) - Mathematics term

noun:

• yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer
• grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow) - obsolete term
• failing to win a single hand during a half-game - Mahjong term

expression:

• each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of

noun:

• rich person; wealthy person
• taking good care of things; keeping things for a long time and taking care of them

noun:

• bright red tinged with yellow
• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region) ➜ 川越芋

noun:

• something-something; yada yada; so-and-so ➜ うんたら

expression:

• East is East, and West is West - proverb