noun:

• civil status; status (of a person) under the Civil Code

noun:

• book-cover design; picture on the cover of a book

noun:

• through a wall; on the other side of a wall - usu. as 壁越しに

noun:

• transit of a planet over the solar disk; solar transit ➜ 太陽面通過

noun:

• pension replacement rate; income substitution rate (of the public pension)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in
• to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to smash
• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades) ➜ 撃ち込む
• to input (data); to enter
• to devote oneself to; to go heart and soul into; to throw oneself into; to go head over heels for
• to practice hitting (baseball, tennis, etc.) - Sports term
• to hit (an opponent in kendo, boxing, etc.); to get a blow in - Martial Arts term
• to invade one's opponent's territory (in the game of go); to place a stone in an opponent's formation
• to pour (concrete, etc.) into a form

noun:

• unstitched, open side of some traditional Japanese clothing; clothing with such an open side - abbreviation ➜ 縫腋
• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides and no ran ➜ 闕腋の袍

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

noun:

• new rice; first rice crop of the year Antonym: 古米

noun / ~の noun:

• novice; beginner; newcomer; new hand

noun / ~する noun:

• founding a country
• opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world ➜ 鎖国

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• about the middle (of an era)

noun:

• middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate) - Anatomy term

noun:

• Momoyama period (latter half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1583-1600 CE) ➜ 安土桃山時代

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to let something slip

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to linger (faint light of twilight); to remain lit in the lingering twilight ➜ 明け残る

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

expression:

• in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days

noun:

• strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school; the old school tie - four character idiom

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

noun:

• any shark of genus Centrophorus (esp. the dwarf gulper shark, Centrophorus atromarginatus)

noun:

• Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)

noun:

• weekly ideas; weekly thoughts; ideas brought forth at the conclusion of a week

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

noun:

• credits roll (at the end of a show or movie); end credit roll - From English "endroll"

noun:

• Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)

noun:

• return of government (to Kyoto); making former capital (esp. Kyoto) the capital again