noun:

• One Village One Product movement; OVOP; campaign to boost the countryside by promoting the special products of local areas

expression:

• you could say; you might say; verging on the

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to extol; to laud; to sing the praises of ➜ 褒めちぎる【ほめちぎる】

expression:

• as (for); for; in the capacity of ➜ として・は

noun:

• whole nation; entire nation; all the people

expression:

• no exception; without exception; always the same

noun:

• heddle; heald; part of a loom, a wire or cord with an eye, through which the warp threads are threaded

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

expression:

• pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand

noun:

• moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) ➜ 物質文化

noun / suffix:

• like; as if; the same as ➜ 如し・の様に【のように】

noun:

• long mai (feng shui); longmai; the air or energy flowing down from an undulating mountain range ➜ 龍穴

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to have the means to buy - idiom
• to be near (a certain age) - idiom

noun:

• Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio

noun:

• Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

noun:

• cash; cash payment; payment on the spot ➜ 即金・当銀

noun:

• fixed game; bid-rigging; put-up job; contest in which the victor is practically known beforehand (e.g. due to unfair conditions or an obvious difference in strength) - from 出来合いのレース - abbreviation

noun:

• sculpture; engraving; the plastic art

noun:

• tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk

noun / ~の noun:

• present use; business in hand; necessary for the current time

noun:

• wokou; wakou; Japanese pirates of the Middle Ages

noun:

• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

noun:

• adipocere; grave wax; greying of the body fats of a corpse which rests in a moist but airless place (graying)