(historical) Short for 邪馬台国 (Yamatai-koku): Yamatai

cast pearls before swine

Obsolete spelling of マニラ (Manira, “Manila (the capital city of the Philippines)”)

saibara (Heian-era genre of vocal music)

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds

To be clothed in furs and ride in a carriage drawn by well fed horses. That is, the outfit in which rich people dress when they go out.

(organic chemistry) hippurate

Alternative spelling of 邪馬台国

World War I

World War II