noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

temporal noun:

• now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

noun:

• hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese - From Portuguese "calção" ➜ 袴

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun:

• the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• book of poetry
• The Classic of Poetry and The Classic of History (Chinese texts)

noun:

• group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages)
• group of words

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

adjectival noun / noun / suffix noun:

• method; manner; way; style
• appearance; air
• tendency
• folk song (genre of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義
• wind (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun:

• joint and several liability; each individual being responsible for the payment of his share of the purchase price, expense, etc. - four character idiom

noun:

• the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election; children of (Junichiro) Koizumi [literal] - colloquialism ➜ ８３会【はちさんかい】

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時教

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term ➜ 見せ板【みせいた】

noun:

• layering; placing a large amount of orders and cancelling before they are executed (with the intent of manipulating the market) - Finance term

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:

• to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to place under someone's care ➜ 託する
• to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
• to use as a pretext

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to place under someone's care ➜ 託す
• to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
• to use as a pretext

noun:

• start broaching (a subject); opening remark; start; commencement; beginning
• event at the start of the tenth month of the lunar calendar
• opening a sealed jar or container

expression:

• complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways - four character idiom