noun:

• one's birthplace

noun:

• pulling out one's hair; trichotillomania ➜ 抜毛症

noun:

• calling another player's discarded tile to complete a meld (but not to complete one's hand) - Mahjong term
• declaring a kong or calling a discarded tile to complete a meld - Mahjong term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

noun:

• one's common or popular name

noun:

• lady's pin money (pocket money); payment to a cosmetician ［けしょうりょう］
• cosmetic material ［けしょうりょう］
• dowry (Edo period)

expression:

• despite one's busyness

noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

suffix:

• suffix appended to somebody else's family members - honorific language

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to defile one's reputation; to besmirch one's name

noun:

• one's dead child

noun:

• Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is ➜ 六曜

noun:

• division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect) - Buddhism term ➜ 五時八教

expression:

• autumn weather is as fickle as a woman's heart - orig. 男心と秋の空 - proverb ➜ 男心と秋の空

noun:

• beginner's luck

noun / ~する noun:

• retirement at one's own request

noun:

• Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii)

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• it's my turn; the ball is in my court; it's up to me - idiom

noun:

• with the author's compliments

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• Lidth's jay (Garrulus lidthi)

noun:

• Schlegel's green tree frog (Rhacophorus schlegelii)

noun:

• one's country of assignment (e.g. for an ambassador)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to collect one's thoughts; to gather one's thoughts; to put one's ideas in order