noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom

noun:

• stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage ➜ 白洲

expression:

• the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age

noun:

• immersion; dipping; in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture; in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

noun:

• family; clan; kin
• sect; school; adherents; followers; disciples
• group of related sumo stables - Sumo term

noun:

• black fly (any insect of family Simuliidae); gnat

noun:

• goosefish (any fish of family Lophiidae); monkfish; sea devil
• fool - archaism
• curved gutter ➜ 呼び樋

noun:

• Chimaeridae; family of shortnose chimaeras, cartilaginous fish with short round snouts

noun:

• Proscylliidae; family of finback catsharks containing seven species in four genera

noun:

• Pseudotriakidae; family with only one species of false catshark, Pseudotriakis microdon

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

noun:

• butterfish (any fish of family Stromateidae, esp. species Pampus punctatissimus); harvestfish; rudderfish

noun:

• pond skater (any insect of family Gerridae); water strider

noun:

• rat kangaroo (any marsupial of family Potoroidae, incl. bettongs and potoroos)

noun:

• Parascylliidae; family of collared carpet sharks containing eight species and two genera

noun:

• Varanidae; family of carnivorous monitor lizards whose only extant genus is Varanus