noun:

• Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body - Martial Arts term

expression / noun:

• having one's own premises ➜ 部屋持ちの親方【へやもちのおやかた】
• Edo-period prostitute successful enough to have her own room in an establishment - abbr. of 部屋持ち女郎

pronoun / suffix noun:

• Your Majesty; His Majesty; Her Majesty - honorific language

noun / suffix noun:

• your Excellency; his Excellency; her Excellency - honorific language

noun:

• stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate
• stalking horse; spoiler

noun:

• woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties

noun / suffix noun:

• your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour) - honorific language

expression:

• even a homely girl looks beautiful at the peak of her youth; even coarse tea tastes good when freshly-brewed [literal] - abbreviation ➜ 鬼も十八番茶も出花

expression / noun:

• fruits of one's wife's labour (in assisting her husband's career, e.g. by running the household)

noun:

• custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday

noun:

• principle of nationality (according to which an offender should be tried in accordance with the law of his or her own country) ➜ 属地主義

pronoun:

• he; she; him; her - derogatory or familiar

noun:

• samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami)
• type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun / ~する noun:

• author directing or producing his or her own play (film) - four character idiom
• staging oneself for effect; presenting oneself in a favorable light - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾国傾城

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国【けいせいけいこく】

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• outblooming even a flower (of a young girl); even the flower blushes (before her beauty) [literal] - idiom

noun:

• single person who earns enough to live alone but prefers to live rent-free with his or her parents - From English "parasite single"

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

noun:

• his-and-her watches; pair watches; couple watch set