noun:

• battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term

noun:

• thousand-day walk through the mountains from Hieizan to the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto (ascetic practice of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

expression / noun:

• next in line; heir - obscure term

noun:

• writing in an irregular hand

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to grow in prosperity

expression:

• first in, first out; FIFO - also in accounting - IT term

noun:

• kanji officially for use in names

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to scatter in all directions (like baby spiders)

noun:

• person in charge of public relations; PR manager

noun:

• small double-reed wind instrument used in gagaku (made of bamboo, with 7 holes on top and 2 below) ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun:

• food boiled or stewed in soy sauce, sugar, mirin, etc. for short-term preserving - Food term

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• lifting (a child) high up in the air - children's language

noun:

• rhyme in a Chinese poem

noun:

• someone engaged in a certain pursuit; practitioner; worker; employee

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting in the open air

noun:

• dyed in various colors; dyed in various colours

expression:

• not wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord - from the Book of Rites - proverb ➜ 不倶戴天

noun / ~する noun:

• payment in advance

noun:

• flurry of snow in a clear sky
• winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops
• skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever ➜ 風ほろし

adverb:

• in haste - often used in letters, e.g. in an opening phrase

noun:

• prewar Japanese adventurer (political activist) in mainland China - four character idiom