~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see - four character idiom

noun:

• soldier dispatched by a god; soldier under the protection of the gods

expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good

noun:

• common; in the usual course

noun:

• America (land mass); the Americas

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

noun / ~する noun:

• crouching; formal crouch performed at the beginning of a sumo or kendo match - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• taming; the taming of ➜ 飼いならす

noun:

• show-off bra; wearing clothes that reveal part of the bra (on purpose)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to say by mistake; to make a slip of the tongue

noun:

• Ama no Mihashira; the heavenly pillar on Onokoro Island, around which Izanagi and Izanami are said to have wed - archaism ➜ オノコロ島

noun:

• banishment (to a somewhat distant province); middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• beautiful dew; comparing the beauty of dew to that of a flower

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misplace; to put in the wrong place
• to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation ➜ 辻褄を合わせる

noun:

• Grus (constellation); the Crane - Astronomy term

noun:

• Liujiang man; one of the earliest modern humans found in East Asia

noun:

• inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series - slang

noun:

• something not needed; person who is in the way

noun:

• Yama; judge of the afterlife

noun:

• Scarus; genus of parrotfish in the family Scaridae

noun:

• Eudontomyzon; genus of lamprey in the family Petromyzontidae

noun:

• false start; jumping the gun - From English "flying start"
• flying start; running start
• broadcasting a television or radio program a few minutes before its scheduled time

noun:

• through a wall; on the other side of a wall - usu. as 壁越しに