水 | [みず, mizu] (n) (1) (See 湯・ゆ・1) water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); (2) fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; (3) flood; floodwaters; (4) (See 力水) water offered to sumo wrestlers just prior to a bout; (5) (See 水入り) break granted to sumo wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout; (P) #197 [Add to Longdo] |
はい | [hai] (int) (1) (pol) yes; (2) OK (used to get attention prior to an utterance); okay; (3) giddy-up; giddap; (P) #6,143 [Add to Longdo] |
休み | [やすみ, yasumi] (n) (1) rest; recess; respite; (2) vacation; holiday; absence; suspension; (3) dormancy (of a silkworm prior to moulting); (P) #11,902 [Add to Longdo] |
譜代;譜第 | [ふだい, fudai] (n) (1) successive generations; (2) (abbr) (See 譜代大名) hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) #18,924 [Add to Longdo] |
カリフ;ハリファ | [karifu ; harifa] (n) caliph; chief civil and religious Muslim ruler (prior to 1924) #19,267 [Add to Longdo] |
お邪魔;御邪魔 | [おじゃま, ojama] (n, vs) (pol) (See 邪魔) hindrance; intrusion (suru and itasu verb forms are used as set phrases said prior to entering or leaving someone's home) [Add to Longdo] |
音仮名 | [おんがな, ongana] (n) (obsc) (prior to the advent of kana) kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their on-yomi, regardless of meaning [Add to Longdo] |
刈払い;刈り払い | [かりはらい, kariharai] (n) weeding (prior to tree-planting) [Add to Longdo] |
訓仮名 | [くんがな, kungana] (n) (obsc) (prior to the advent of kana) kanji used to represent readings of words, selected for their kun-yomi, regardless of meaning [Add to Longdo] |
血抜き | [ちぬき, chinuki] (n, vs) letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc. [Add to Longdo] |
古神道 | [こしんとう, koshintou] (n) ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the Introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan) [Add to Longdo] |
呼吸を合わせる | [こきゅうをあわせる, kokyuuwoawaseru] (exp, v1) to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of sumo match [Add to Longdo] |
御手洗川 | [みたらしがわ, mitarashigawa] (n) river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine [Add to Longdo] |
此方 | [こなた;こんた(ok), konata ; konta (ok)] (n) (1) (こなた only) (uk) (See こちら・1) this way; here; (2) (こなた only) the person in question; he; she; him; her; (3) (こなた only) since (a time in the past); prior to (a time in the future); (pn, adj-no) (4) (こなた only) me; (5) you [Add to Longdo] |
三昧耶戒;三摩耶戒 | [さんまやかい, sanmayakai] (n) { Buddh } (See 伝法灌頂, 阿闍梨) precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism) [Add to Longdo] |
産前 | [さんぜん, sanzen] (n) prior to childbirth [Add to Longdo] |
修祓 | [しゅばつ;しゅうばつ;しゅうふつ, shubatsu ; shuubatsu ; shuufutsu] (n) purification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event) [Add to Longdo] |
新年宴会 | [しんねんえんかい, shinnen'enkai] (n) (1) New Year's banquet (held annually by the emperor on Jan. 5, prior to WWII); (2) (See 新年会) New Year's party [Add to Longdo] |
成人の日 | [せいじんのひ, seijinnohi] (n) Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day [Add to Longdo] |
赤烏帽子 | [あかえぼし, akaeboshi] (n) (1) (See 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子) red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color); (2) metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item [Add to Longdo] |
前仏 | [ぜんぶつ, zenbutsu] (n) (1) { Buddh } Buddha prior to Gautama; (2) { Buddh } (See 後仏) Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni [Add to Longdo] |
息を合わせる | [いきをあわせる, ikiwoawaseru] (exp, v1) to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of sumo match [Add to Longdo] |
大化前代 | [たいかぜんだい, taikazendai] (n) (See 大化の改新) period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform [Add to Longdo] |
地久節 | [ちきゅうせつ, chikyuusetsu] (n) Empress's Birthday (esp. as celebrated prior to WWII) [Add to Longdo] |
南蛮人 | [なんばんじん, nanbanjin] (n) (arch) (See 紅毛人) southern barbarian (used to describe Western Europeans who visited Japan prior to the Edo period, esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese) [Add to Longdo] |
南蛮船 | [なんばんせん, nanbansen] (n) foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period) [Add to Longdo] |
父上 | [ちちうえ, chichiue] (n) (pol) father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period) [Add to Longdo] |
譜代大名 | [ふだいだいみょう, fudaidaimyou] (n) hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) [Add to Longdo] |
母上 | [ははうえ, hahaue] (n) (pol) mother (term used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period) [Add to Longdo] |
没前;歿前 | [ぼつぜん, botsuzen] (n-t) prior to death; during one's lifetime [Add to Longdo] |
予餞会 | [よせんかい, yosenkai] (n) farewell party for graduates (held prior to graduation) [Add to Longdo] |
力水 | [ちからみず, chikaramizu] (n) water offered to sumo wrestlers just prior to a bout [Add to Longdo] |
力水を付ける | [ちからみずをつける, chikaramizuwotsukeru] (exp, v1) the whole ritual of taking and spitting the water prior to the bout (sumo) [Add to Longdo] |
歴史的仮名遣い | [れきしてきかなづかい, rekishitekikanadukai] (n) (See 現代仮名遣い) historical kana usage (as used prior to Japanese government reforms made in 1946) [Add to Longdo] |
露帝 | [ろてい, rotei] (n) emperor of Russia (prior to 1917); tsar; czar; tzar [Add to Longdo] |
露払い | [つゆはらい, tsuyuharai] (n) (1) outrider; herald; (2) (sumo) rikishi who leads the yokozuna to the ring prior to his ring-entering ceremony [Add to Longdo] |