noun:

• all sorts of birds; hundreds (and thousands) of birds - archaism
• plover ➜ 千鳥
• Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale ➜ 鶯

noun:

• taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

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

noun:

• Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) ➜ 下関条約

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make lively; to become animated; to have fun talking about something ➜ 話に花を咲かせる
• to become successful and well known

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• spring dust [literal]; frost and snow that's blown like dust in the air by the spring wind

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

godan ~る verb:

• to walk about; to walk to and fro; to pace around

noun / ~する noun:

• lying down and getting up
• waking; getting up
• living (with); staying (with)

noun / ~する noun:

• separate areas for smokers and non-smokers
• separating smoking from non-smoking

noun:

• pork miso soup; miso soup with pork and vegetables

expression:

• time waits for no-one; time and tide stay for no man - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk on and on; to talk one's head off

expression / noun:

• something-something (e.g. platitudes, waffling); yada yada; so-and-so

adverb / ~する noun:

• bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather) - onomatopoeia
• nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• frankly; open-heartedly - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• coming down from one's seat and prostrating oneself (to pay obeisance)

noun:

• musicians' box on the left side of the stage
• lower seat ➜ 下座【しもざ】

~の noun:

• half made (e.g. clothes that are already cut and basted when purchased)

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

noun:

• set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryouiki

noun:

• car train; train carrying both passengers and vehicles

noun:

• iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom