noun:

• customers losing interest in product or shop

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun:

• Korean living in Japan; person of Korean descent - colloquialism

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll around in the grass or mud

noun:

• win of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• udon in soup thickened with (powdered) kudzu ➜ 餡かけ【あんかけ】

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• blossoms falling in confusion - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• both in name and reality; both in name and substance ➜ 名実相伴う

noun:

• unprecedented in history; unheard-of; epoch-making - four character idiom

expression / adjectival noun:

• in one's senses; sane

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

adjectival noun / noun:

• deeply in love with; madly in love with; heads over heels in love with; to be crazy about

noun:

• Chinese lacquerware technique resulting in a mottled finish

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be drawn in by something wicked; to be won over by something wicked - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• increasing in size

noun:

• boiled chrysanthemum petals pickled in vinegar - Food term ➜ 膾【なます】

noun:

• in range; within range

adjectival noun / noun:

• we are of equal status in this regard

expression / ichidan verb:

• to extend in length (esp. parts of television programs) ➜ 尺【しゃく】

noun:

• words mainly used in songs or poetry ➜ 歌語

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to appear in profusion

noun:

• conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru" ➜ 下一段活用