noun:

• fully raising the curtain when an actor enters or exits (noh)
• curtain with a family crest

noun:

• favourable position (esp. in horse racing, e.g. in 3rd to 5th place during a race) - abbreviation ➜ 好位置

expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good

noun:

• sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (often a homosexual or transsexual male) - Linguistics term

noun:

• chatting without a break; talking without pause
• amusing two-person dialogue (form of stand-up comedy) ➜ しゃべくり漫才

expression / noun:

• person of strong constitution unexpectedly falling ill; sickness of a stout man; the devil getting sunstroke [literal]

expression:

• wasting one's breath (trying to explain something); (reading) the Analects of Confucius to a dog [literal] - idiom

expression / adverbial noun:

• to a great extent; incredibly (tasty, much, etc.); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; making a pledge by hooking each other's little fingers ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り

noun / ~する noun:

• document screening; paper screening; narrowing down a field of applicants based on resumes, written applications, etc.

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

expression:

• unable to take one's eyes off of something; having to keep a watchful eye on

interjection:

• oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.

expression:

• hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• cat tongue; thin cookie or chocolate shaped like a tongue - Food term - From French "langue de chat"

noun:

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

expression:

• no matter how lovingly raised, a foster child is not actually one's biological child - proverb - obscure term

expression:

• faith is mysterious; through faith, even something trivial (like a pilchard's head) seems valuable - proverb

noun:

• Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• exemption (from a regulation, etc. usu. because of small scale)
• cut-off cuffs (trousers, etc.)

noun:

• man (esp. one who is well-respected)
• samurai ➜ 侍

suffix noun:

• person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving a park, garden, zoo, etc.
• leaving kindergarten (e.g. end of day, on completion, expulsion)

noun:

• first song or chirp, etc. (in the year) of a particular bird or insect species

noun:

• item with a long slender neck (e.g. vase, bottle)
• long-necked person

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭