noun:

• Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

noun:

• the stroke-count of a kanji

noun:

• denial of service attack - IT term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to suffer an embarrassing defeat

noun:

• two images of Buddha

noun:

• fat underbelly of a fish - archaism ➜ 砂ずり【すなずり】

noun:

• Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft) (Kant)

expression / noun:

• apple of one's eye ➜ 掌の玉

noun:

• furigana where kana is associated each character of a compound ➜ モノルビ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to assume an air of importance; to stand on one's dignity

godan ~む verb:

• to be broad-minded enough to associate with various types of people; to possess a capacious mind

noun:

• dissolution of zaibatsu ➜ 財閥

noun:

• way of throwing (esp. in baseball); throwing technique; pitching technique - Sports term

noun:

• highest institute of education

noun:

• the 24 seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• sword of Damocles

noun:

• female or male prostitute serving a monk; "luring a monk into depredation" [figurative]

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "u" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音

noun:

• spray of snow (smoke-like)

noun:

• form of a retreating person's body

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a state of intense concentration - Buddhism term ➜ 出定
• death (of a high monk, etc.)

noun:

• contemplation of phenomena - Buddhism term ➜ 理觀

expression:

• it is difficult to say which of the two is better

noun:

• triangular pattern of objects - from the shape of 品