noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman - four character idiom

expression / ~の noun:

• (living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistance

noun:

• cloth (esp. cloth made from fibers of the paper mulberry tree) - archaism

noun:

• any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry ➜ 大島桜

noun:

• any oriental variety of cherry tree descended from the Oshima cherry ➜ 大島桜

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

noun:

• principle of nationality (according to which an offender should be tried in accordance with the law of his or her own country) ➜ 属地主義

noun:

• remarks; comments
• way of talking; speaking style
• excuse
• topic (of conversation)

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

noun:

• snow, moon, and flowers; beauty of the four seasons (from a poem by Bai Juyi) ➜ 月雪花【つきゆきはな】

noun:

• harassment, e.g. in the workplace, from a position of power; bullying - From English "power harassment"

noun:

• shoemaker spinefoot (Siganus sutor, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• dusky spinefoot (Siganus luridus, species of rabbitfish from the Western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus, species of rabbitfish from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• balloon shark (Cephaloscyllium sufflans, species of catshark from the western Indian Ocean)

noun:

• dusky batfish (Platax pinnatus, species of Western Pacific spadefish found from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

noun:

• stink bomb; foul odour emitted from the anal sacs of a frightened weasel
• final desperate tactic - idiom

adverb:

• going home from work; on the way home from work

noun:

• outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

noun:

• lame (cloth made from gold or silver thread) - From French

noun / ~する noun:

• abstinence from salt (for vow or spiritual reasons)