noun:

• women in the sciences; female scientists - abbreviation ➜ 理系女性・理系女子

noun:

• posing and moving the fingers as an art form; finger-tutting

noun:

• propensity to put oneself in as bad a light as possible; being prone to act bad - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to deal with (handle) a matter

noun:

• person with a family; family man

noun:

• the (one's) whole body - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• initial brush stroke in calligraphy

noun:

• the four great Japanese grammar texts (Yamada, Matsushita, Hashimoto and Tokieda)

expression:

• while looking on in blank amazement; while gazing at it in shock ➜ あれよあれよ

expression:

• person who is ignorant of the real world; frog in a well [literal]

noun:

• "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs - from アルバイト and salon - abbreviation

noun:

• ASCII data transfer with XON-XOFF flow control - IT term

noun:

• dumplings offered to the moon (on the 15th day of the 8th month and the 13th day of the 9th month)

noun:

• summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study - Buddhism term

noun:

• making materials in a library available in open stacks

noun:

• person with whom one communicates by pager

noun:

• type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather - From English "towel blanket"

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

~と adverb:

• with a thud - onomatopoeia

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement - four character idiom ➜ 侘寂

noun:

• large fan-shaped object held by an attendant and used to conceal the face of a noble, etc.

noun:

• sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb