code of law

(informal) to have won a match on a psychological or personal level despite losing to all appearances

extremely thin sheet of wood / thin sheet about 25 centimeters thick on which scriptures were written, used in the end of Kamakura period

okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added after a kanji to indicate inflection endings, such as the べる (-beru) in 食(た)べる (taberu, “to eat”)