noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun:

• one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register ➜ 戸籍

noun:

• Brahman; Brahma; ultimate reality of the universe (in Hinduism) - From Sanskrit ➜ アートマン

adverb:

• nearly; almost; on the verge (of happening)

expression:

• innocent look; nonchalant look; air of innocence

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

noun:

• remedial measure; preventive measure; the best way to cope with (meet) the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• Caudata; Urodela; order comprising the salamanders

adjectival noun / noun:

• briars; thicket; the bush

noun:

• without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• improvised; impromptu; extemporaneous; off-the-cuff

godan ~る verb:

• to fail; to mess up; to bungle; to screw the pooch - colloquialism ➜ ドジ

noun:

• water warts; molluscum contagiosum; viral infection of the skin - colloquialism - Medicine term ➜ 伝染性軟属腫

expression:

• when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb ➜ 奢る平家久しからず【おごるへいけひさしからず】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to gaze at; to stare at; to set one's eyes on
• to favor; to favour; to be partial to

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to play with fire; to take a great risk; to step on a tiger's tail [literal] - idiom

expression:

• not distinguishing between what's good and bad; not knowing chalk from cheese; mixing good and bad together; shit and miso are the same [literal] - idiom

expression:

• pride goes before a fall; pride comes before a fall; the proud Heike family does not last long [literal] - proverb

noun:

• people; crowd; masses; the public

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to set a high value on
• to take good care of; to look after

conjunction:

• and then; besides; on top of that
• in that case; that being the case; if so

expression / ichidan verb:

• to demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done ➜ 恩に着せる

noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles