noun:

• using horizontal characters in vertical writing

expression / ~の noun:

• currently popular; in fashion; trendy

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leading (the way); showing around
• information; notice; notification
• announcement (of one's arrival)
• invitation
• acquaintance; knowledge

noun:

• skin; hide; pelt; fur ➜ 革
• rind; peel; husk; bark
• shell; sheath; wrapping
• mask (hiding one's true nature); seeming ➜ 化けの皮【ばけのかわ】・欲の皮が突っ張る【よくのかわがつっぱる】

noun:

• hut; cabin; shed; (animal) pen
• small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; circus tent; booth ［こや］
• one's own house - esp. しょうおく - humble language - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• another place; somewhere else; strange parts ➜ 他所【たしょ】

noun:

• outside (one's family or group); those people Antonym: 内【うち】
• unrelated matter - often as 〜をよそに, 〜をよそにして, etc. ➜ よそにする

pronoun:

• we; us
• I; me - archaism
• you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors) - archaism

noun:

• passion; sexual desire; lust
• attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• going through thick and thin to attain one's objective; enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance - four character idiom

noun:

• loincloth; breechcloth; breechclout; traditional Japanese male underwear
• kimono underskirt ［ふんどし・ふどし］ ➜ 腰巻
• wrestler's ornamental apron ［ふんどし・ふどし］ - Sumo term

expression:

• even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade - from the Humane King Sutra - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• teacher; master; one's mentor

noun / suffix:

• religious leader

suffix:

• specialist

noun:

• five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army) - archaism

expression:

• one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost - four character idiom

noun:

• form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)

noun:

• recouping one's strength for a renewed attack (on); making another attempt with redoubled efforts - four character idiom

noun:

• not being obsessed with something very long (just as clouds and haze pass swiftly before one's eyes) - four character idiom

noun:

• inactive bank account (no withdrawals or deposits made, and to which the owner's rights have been terminated)

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本開き
• surgeon's cuffs

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本切羽
• surgeon's cuffs

expression:

• seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon) ➜ 秋の七草

noun:

• 1932 Theses; Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems

noun:

• dyeing one's hair oneself (as opposed to having it done by a hairdresser) - From English "self colour"

noun:

• child from an earlier wife ➜ 後腹【あとばら】
• preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku) ［さきばら］ ➜ 追い腹

noun / ~の noun:

• three colours; three colors

noun:

• triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 三色同順
• triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 三色同刻