noun:

• memory location - IT term

noun:

• location scouting - From English "location hunting"

noun:

• five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes
• five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); "the five periods of the Buddha's teachings" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun:

• filling in (e.g. between speakers at a meeting, acts at a show); material used to fill in (between speeches at a meeting, etc.); anecdote

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
• to eat into; to encroach; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market); to break into (e.g. first place); to erode; to cut into (e.g. time, savings)
• to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks) - vulgar

noun:

• the true, the good, and the beautiful

noun:

• Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body - proverb

noun:

• making use of the surrounding landscape as a part of the design of a garden; natural scenery used as the background in the landscaping of a garden

noun:

• Eiroku-period swordsmithing school, named for a place in the old Higo province
• sword of the Dotanuki school, usually thicker and heavier than regular Japanese swords
• in fiction, a heavier variant of Japanese sword

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

noun:

• means of making contact; intermediary; go-between
• connections; influence; pull; good offices

noun:

• ren (ancient Chinese measure of height, depth, etc.; between 1-3 meters)

noun:

• well up in both literary and military (martial) arts; well skilled in wielding both the sword and the pen - four character idiom

noun:

• winds and clouds; nature; the elements
• situation; state of affairs

noun:

• Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

noun:

• the nature of plants to grow down and root; geotropism

noun:

• director (of the ritsuryo-period Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office) ➜ 弾正台

noun:

• the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains - four character idiom - Buddhism term
• a series of disasters

noun:

• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事茫々

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas) - obscure term