noun:

• first month of the lunar calendar
• January

noun:

• signs, symbols and characters used in manga to represent actions, emotions, etc. - slang

noun:

• person in charge; manager; chief; head

noun:

• the flourishing mid-Shōwa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease - four character idiom

noun:

• direct input - IT term

adverb:

• with a clunk; with a clank - onomatopoeia
• the sound of a sudden decrease (in profits, vigor, etc.)

noun:

• the first half-year; first half of the year

expression / adverb:

• for the first time in one's life

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to cringe with fear; to cower with fright; to be terribly afraid

noun:

• direct kanji input (as opposed to kana-kanji conversion) - IT term ➜ 漢直

expression:

• a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - proverb ➜ 千里の行も足下に始まる

noun:

• good actor who is inept in all other matters; demon for acting who is utterly indifferent to all other concerns; skilled actor who knows little of life; person who excels in one occupation (profession) but lacks simple common sense - four character idiom

noun:

• in perfect focus - abbreviation

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• soup with basket clams (usu. miso soup) - Food term ➜ 蜆【しじみ】

noun:

• tip of the tongue; speech; way of talking

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to make symbolic signs (gestures) with the fingers

godan ~く verb:

• to do in advance; to do as a preparation - contraction of ～しておく - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• suffering in poverty; abject poverty

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根の乾かぬうち【したのねのかわかぬうち】

noun:

• 33 sacred places in the Kanto Region (which was previously known as Bandou) ➜ 三十三所

noun:

• town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

noun:

• common self-heal (Prunella vulgaris subsp. asiatica); common selfheal

noun:

• shrine listed in the Engi-Shiki as of the highest rank ➜ 延喜式【えんぎしき】