noun:

• dumplings offered to the moon (on the 15th day of the 8th month and the 13th day of the 9th month)

noun / ~する noun:

• the situation reverses itself; the table is turned; the shoe is on the other foot - four character idiom

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month) ➜ 七十二候

expression:

• condemn the offense, but not the offender; detest the sin, but weep for the sinner - proverb ➜ 罪を憎んで人を憎まず【つみをにくんでひとをにくまず】

pronoun / pre-noun adjectival:

• this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic) ➜ 此れ・此の

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 11th of the second lunar month until the 15th) ➜ 七十二候

noun / ~する noun:

• seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be experienced in the ways of the world; to taste the bitter and the sweet

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

noun:

• part of the feet from the ankles to the tips of the toes

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom

noun:

• family chart and personal history - esp. for お見合い

noun:

• pattern made from chrysanthemums with disordered petals, esp. used on family crests

noun:

• web-spinner (any insect of order Embioptera, esp. family Oligotomidae)

noun:

• psylla (any insect of family Psyllidae); psyllid; jumping plant louse

noun:

• Siganidae; family of fishes known as rabbitfishes, spinefoots and foxfaces

noun:

• Petromyzontidae; family of parasitic lamprey with a toothed sucking mouth

noun:

• Anatidae; family of birds including ducks, geese and swans

expression / noun:

• family crest shaped as a hemp leaf
• motif made from entwined hexagons

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其れ・彼の

interjection:

• um...; er...; uh...

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月