noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 御旅所

expression / noun:

• the last moment; the very end

noun:

• the total

ichidan verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close

noun:

• reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree - Shintō term

noun:

• the 48 basic techniques - four character idiom - Sumo term
• every trick in the book
• the 48 basic sexual positions - colloquialism

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to live by the pen

noun:

• jointly held concession in China (e.g. Shanghai International Settlement) - obscure term ➜ 共同租界

noun:

• rising diagonally up and to the right
• growing; expanding; soaring

noun:

• on-the-job training; OJT ➜ オンザジョブトレーニング

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers ➜ 単鉤法

noun:

• government of the Qing dynasty; Qing government

noun:

• soba with egg

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to do an act of benevolence at the sacrifice of oneself

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• very much out in the open (as in a information)

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fiddle with; to play with ➜ ひねくり回す【ひねくりまわす】

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to agree in advance

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to enjoy the cool breeze

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• direct colour (specification) - IT term

noun:

• New Year's decoration with cocoon-shaped cakes ➜ 餅花