(n) narrow escape from the jaw of death
(n) (tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep
(n) Kyushu (November) sumo tournament, held in Fukuoka
(n) Kyushu region (inc. Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures)
(adj-no) winding
meandering
sinuous
zigzag
(n) (1) an old woman's gray hair
(2) old woman with white hair
(n) the palace
(n) dagger
(n) falling headlong
plummeting
sudden crash
(n) nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have)
(n) (obsc) Amitabha's Pure Land (composed of nine levels)
(n) (Buddh) nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land
(n-adv,n-t) ten to one
nine cases out of ten
(n) spectacular success
(n) three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
(n) three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
(int,n) kowtowing
bowing repeatedly
(n) forty-ninth day after a person's death
(n-adv,n) 8 or 9 cases out of ten
in all probability
(n-adv,n) 8 or 9 cases out of ten
in all probability
(n) (Buddh) facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple)
(exp) "There is a huge markup in medicines."
(n) September 11th attacks
(n) mere fraction
drop in the bucket
(n) narrow escape from death
(v5r) to go down to Kyushu
(adj-no) winding
meandering
sinuous
zigzag
(exp) nine shallow, one deep (ancient Chinese sexual technique)
(n) the 1900s
(P)
(exp) to have a narrow escape from death
