noun:

• pope's nose; parson's nose; meat from around the coccyx of a chicken

noun / ~の noun:

• koma shape; five-sided shape in the form of a koma (shogi game piece) ➜ 駒【こま】

noun:

• worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - archaism - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

suffix / counter:

• counter for objects with stretched strings (i.e. bows, kotos), curtains, papers, etc.

noun:

• sencha tea ceremony; Way of Sencha Tea; Chinese-influenced Japanese tea ceremony using leaf tea rather than powdered tea, assoc. with the Ōbaku school of zen ➜ 煎茶【せんちゃ】・黄檗宗【おうばくしゅう】

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

noun:

• red sea bream (Pagrus major); Japanese sea bream; red tai; porgy

noun:

• red-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile); red-faced shag; violet shag

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; undersized; small size ➜ 大振り

noun / ~する noun:

• short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.

noun:

• deposit (e.g. on the purchase of a house); earnest money; guarantee money
• margin (payment); warrant money; cover

expression:

• man proposes, God disposes; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate) [literal] - proverb

expression:

• half a loaf is better than none; even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - idiom ➜ 門前雀羅【もんぜんじゃくら】

noun / ~する noun:

• the flight formation of geese; lining up shoulder to shoulder like flying geese; leading out

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to assume the air of ...; to behave like ... - after noun, adjectival noun or adj-stem

godan ~る verb:

• to put on airs; to be self-important - colloquialism

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun:

• Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto, as well as Nanzen-ji

noun / ~の noun:

• first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)

noun / ~する noun:

• charmed and cursed - archaism ➜ 蠱
• something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons

noun:

• charmed and cursed - archaism ➜ 蠱物
• something that bewilders; something that leads one astray; the work of demons

noun:

• angelica (any herb of the genus Angelica, esp. garden angelica, Angelica archangelica)

noun:

• Indian Ocean mimic surgeonfish (Acanthurus tristis, species of tang from the Indian Ocean)