noun / ~の noun:

• past days; bygone days; days of yore; the olden days

~の noun / noun:

• while still alive; during one's lifetime

noun:

• mother's body (esp. when pregnant or after giving birth)
• parent body; parent organization; base; basis; nucleus

expression:

• there is no way that ... (expresses speaker's belief that something is impossible)
• easy; simple

noun:

• corsage; small bouquet worn by a woman - From French
• bodice of a woman's dress - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind ➜ ど忘れ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be stunned; to be surprised; one's eyes turn into dots (like a cartoon character) [literal]

noun / expression:

• trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

noun / ~の noun:

• having a child (usu. from a former relationship); accompanied by one's child

noun / ~する noun:

• one's own account (of something); account one got (heard) from somebody at first hand

noun:

• ozeki wrestler's attempt to reach the rank of yokozuna; being eligible for promotion to yokozuna - Sumo term ➜ 横綱【よこづな】・大関【おおぜき】

godan ~す verb:

• to fly into a rage; to lose one's temper; to flare up; to break out

expression:

• being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom

noun:

• grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• high knee (exercise drill where one brings one's knees up high while walking or running)

noun:

• peak oil (date when the peak of the world's petroleum production rate is reached)

noun:

• leader of a nobleman's cavalcade - archaism
• animal messenger of the gods (i.e. a fox) ［みさき］

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Naude's rubble goby (Trimma naudei, an Indo-West Pacific fish species); rubble dwarfgoby; red pygmy-goby

interjection:

• excuse me; pardon me; used when visiting someone else's house to ask to be shown inside - used by samurai - archaism

expression / adjective:

• spending a day's revenue within the day; not being attached to money (like a true Tokyoite)

noun:

• gran turismo; GT; high performance car(s) - From Italian

noun:

• custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday

noun / ~する noun:

• sympathy vomiting; vomiting due to the sight or the smell of another person's vomit

noun:

• Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to think hard about (something that one doesn't know much of); to rack one's brain