expression:

• The world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea). - Chinese legend - four character idiom

noun:

• staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

noun / ~する noun:

• losing one's position; losing one's standing; falling (from power); being overthrown; downfall

noun / ~する noun:

• selecting from one's own works; one's own selection

noun:

• voting for oneself ［自選］

noun / ~の noun:

• one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face - four character idiom

noun:

• Smith's red-backed vole (Eothenomys smithii); Smith's vole

noun:

• transverse temporal gyri; ridges on the cerebral cortex; Heschl's gyri; Heschl's convolutions ➜ 脳回

noun / ~する noun:

• using one's own judgement; making up one's own mind; judging for oneself

noun / ~する noun:

• shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs)

noun / ~する noun:

• join one's hands in prayer; pray with (the palms of) one's hands together - four character idiom

expression:

• deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind

noun:

• top; summit; apex; peak
• twelve o'clock (usu. midnight) ［てっぺん］ - often in てっぺんを回る or てっぺん回る - slang
• top of one's head; top of a helmet; (top of) scalp; crown - esp. 頂辺 when in kanji - obscure term

noun:

• simultaneously running for a seat in a single-member constituency and a seat in a proportionally representated constituency

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

noun:

• wide-mouthed ceramic vessel having a small hole in its spherical base (into which bamboo was probably inserted to pour liquids)
• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids ➜ 半挿【はんぞう】

noun:

• eleven; 11 ［じゅういち］
• jack (playing card)
• Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo - ateji derived from its call - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~の noun:

• mercy; compassion; clemency; pity; charity; benevolence

noun:

• Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo - abbreviation ➜ 慈悲心鳥

noun:

• traveller's cheque; traveler's check

noun:

• being too clever (for one's own good); getting done in by one's own cleverness

noun:

• exceeding (overstepping) one's powers (competence, authority); abuse of one's legal authority; acting ultra vires - four character idiom

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• spending time with one's family on one's day off work; family duty - colloquialism

noun:

• eyes and ears; seeing and hearing
• one's attention; one's interest

expression:

• it's none of your business; it's not your concern

noun:

• pilgrim's song; pilgrim's hymn; song in praise of the Buddha - Buddhism term