noun:

• taking the family along

noun:

• purse with a metal clasp; handbag (with clasp); pouch (with clasp); coin purse (with clasp) - etym: toad's mouth ➜ 財布

noun:

• people close to the head man

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

noun / ~する noun:

• tour round the country (Japan) (visiting from province to province) - four character idiom

godan ~う verb:

• to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other
• to have sex; to make love

noun:

• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

expression / noun:

• fruit of one's labor; result of one's efforts

noun:

• one-writing system

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wash one's face and hands
• to go to the toilet

noun / ~の noun:

• the moon; lunar

noun:

• the War On Terror

noun:

• the whole world

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• woman who is popular with men

noun:

• being the only loser; losing by oneself

noun:

• playful style of haikai poetry popularized in the mid-seventeenth century ➜ 談林派・俳諧

noun:

• one's living; one's livelihood

noun / ~する noun:

• spreading the legs (wide apart); opening the legs Antonym: 閉脚【へいきゃく】

noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

expression:

• where to?; whither? - colloquialism

expression / noun:

• one's memoirs
• keepsake (not from a dead person)

adverb:

• burning with desire

noun:

• white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)