noun:

• hourglass figure; having a good-looking, full-bodied figure (of a woman); big breasts and buttocks, tight waist - slang

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• worn-out; ragged; tattered; battered; scruffy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• crumbling; dry and crumbly - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• falling (in drops or clumps); scattering - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• (physically or mentally) worn-out; exhausted - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (coming to light) one after another - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail
• White's thrush (Zoothera dauma) ➜ 虎鶫
• man of mystery; enigma

noun:

• Health and Sports Day (national holiday; second Monday in October); Health-Sports Day; Sports Day

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cause to embrace; to combine; to conjoin
• to sell strong-selling products and poorly selling products together as a package

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• (something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to throw in a shrimp and pull out a whale; to use a sprat to catch a mackerel; to get big returns on a small investment - idiom

expression:

• if you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated; know your enemy - from Sun Tzu's The Art of War - proverb

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to attend on; to wait upon; to accompany; to escort and wait on; to chaperone

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to tell again and again; to repeat; to refrain; to turn up; to turn down

noun:

• temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
• name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)

noun:

• Regional Rapid Service (JR West); Section Rapid Service; RRS; SRS; train service which is local for one section and express for another

noun:

• town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

suffix / ichidan verb:

• to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do ➜ 兼ねない

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features
• to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
• to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
• to think of the future (as well as the present)

noun:

• cause and effect; karma; retribution; an evil cause producing an evil effect - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run) - idiom

noun:

• hair (on the head)

adverbial noun:

• with the exception of; excepting

noun:

• (town) market
• (the) marketplace

noun:

• (fine) art; the arts

noun:

• world; society; people; the public