noun:

• power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice) - Law term

noun:

• dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

expression:

• if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism

noun:

• reason; significance; cause
• piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ... ［由］

noun:

• international marriage which is recognized in only one party's country (e.g. same-sex marriage, polygamy, underage marriage)

noun:

• season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring)
• first ten days of the fourth lunar month ➜ 卯月

adverb:

• extremely cold feeling that makes one feel numb; sharp pain that is almost numbing - onomatopoeia
• heartrending; touching the heart

expression:

• it is wiser to make money steadily over time; light gains make heavy purse; better small takings than a large win [literal]

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught [literal] - proverb

noun:

• critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught) [literal] - proverb - abbreviation ➜ 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】

expression:

• having food on the table is more important than having a high social standing; taro stems over family status [literal] - proverb - humorous term

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for one who goes second; Being slow to take action inevitably leads to defeat - four character idiom

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

expression:

• zeal is a bad servant; the person who chases a deer does not see the mountain [literal] - proverb

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts - abbreviation ➜ 卒業制作

noun:

• Galeorhinus (genus whose only member is the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, in the family Triakidae)

noun:

• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to act arrogantly; to be puffed up with success; to behave like one is better than others

noun:

• aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention
• two smiths hammering at an object in turn ➜ 向こう鎚

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb