expression:

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

expression:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to guarantee (someone's ability or the quality of their work); to vouch for; to endorse ➜ 太鼓判を押す

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

noun:

• pouring hot water on oneself before entering the bathtub; hot water poured on oneself before entering the bathtub
• pouring hot water on oneself repeatedly (type of hot-spring cure)

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; reading the nenbutsu into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 念仏

noun:

• leap up from the initial charge in order to surprise the opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

noun:

• rushing to get on the train (bus, etc.) before the door closes

noun:

• kanji radical 35 when at the bottom (as in the character for summer)

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• pavilion housing the empress's reception hall (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• internal sense ➜ 外官【がいかん】
• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 外官【げかん】

noun:

• Struthioniformes; order comprising the ratites (sometimes spec. only the ostriches)

noun:

• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system)

godan ~つ verb:

• to show signs of
• to show one's feelings or emotions in one's facial expression or behavior
• to put on airs
• to be become animated with voices and noise

noun:

• being out of time; passing the deadline
• time-out

noun:

• twelfth lunar month; 12th month of the lunar calendar ➜ 師走

noun:

• opposite lane; oncoming lane; opposite side of the road

noun:

• Bantu language (of the Bantu language family) ➜ バンツー諸語

noun:

• mountain stream; the water of a mountain stream