noun:

• 15th day of the 7th lunar month; (last day of) Bon lantern festival ➜ 于蘭盆
• mid-year gift; summer gift; Bon Festival gifts ➜ お中元

noun:

• bright red tinged with yellow
• variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region) ➜ 川越芋

noun:

• a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel ➜ 鷸蚌の争い

noun:

• ridge of earth between rice fields
• ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
• footpath between rice fields; causeway - abbreviation ➜ 畦道

expression:

• need not (verb); (not) have to; expressing absence of obligation or necessity - after neg. stem of verb
• need not have; need not exist ➜ 無い

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to take off; to jump; to leap
• to take the plunge; to decide; to embark on; to venture into; to launch out into
• to step out of the ring - Sumo term

expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

adverb:

• not in the least; not at all; not a bit - before a negative

expression / ichidan verb:

• to approach the finale; to come to a close

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to break into (a house to kill the master); to raid

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to take a handful of; to grab and throw
• to turn someone out (of house, room, etc.)

noun:

• rich person; wealthy person
• taking good care of things; keeping things for a long time and taking care of them

noun:

• high monk (esp. one of correct conduct who acts as a role model for his pupils); high priest - abbr. of 阿闍梨耶, from the Sanskrit "ācārya" - honorific language - Buddhism term
• initiate (esp. as a formal rank in Tendai and Shingon) - Buddhism term ➜ 伝法灌頂
• monk who conducts religious services - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• control; management (e.g. of a business)

noun:

• people (of a country); nation; citizen; national

temporal noun:

• (period of) a year

suffix noun:

• during an era

noun:

• author (usu. of a particular book); writer

noun / ~する noun:

• closure (of a ceremony, event, meeting, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• stopping (of a train, car, etc.); stop Antonym: 発車【はっしゃ】

noun:

• decision of a contest; finals (in sports)

adverb:

• naturally; as a matter of course

noun / ~する noun:

• retrial; reopening of a case - Law term
• review; reexamination

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• presentation (e.g. of a gift, etc.)

noun:

• south side of a mountain; Sanyo district