noun:

• attractive mature lady

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• confection of sweetened beans wrapped in wheat-flour dough (in the shape of a sword guard) - abbreviation ➜ 金鍔焼き
• metal sword guard; polearm - archaism

noun:

• period of time in which to recharge one's batteries

noun / ~する noun:

• enrolment of a child in a kindergarten

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document

noun:

• teach-in

noun:

• December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

noun:

• drunken elephant piece, used in some variants of shogi

noun:

• waves in narrow straits - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the game in one's hands; to hold the key to victory

noun:

• writing or drawing in ink

noun:

• progressive increase in rent

godan ~む verb:

• to get stuck in; to be mired in
• to be addicted to

noun:

• dish of raw fish and vegetables seasoned in vinegar - Food term

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and save a large one [literal] - proverb

expression:

• In for a penny, in for a pound - idiom

~する noun:

• call-waiting (phone option)

noun:

• goods loaded in the afternoon for delivery the following morning

noun:

• professor specializing in the readings of kanji in classic Confucianist texts

expression:

• in; at; for

noun:

• being deep in prayer; praying devoutly to Amida Buddha - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• canceled only in case of heavy rain

noun:

• inversion of the word order in a sentence; anastrophe - Linguistics term