noun:

• up train; trains going toward the capital

noun / ~の noun:

• aquatic (life); living in the water ➜ 陸生

noun / ~する noun:

• kneeling down on the ground; prostrate oneself

noun:

• the human body; one's person

noun:

• bodhi; enlightenment - Buddhism term
• happiness in the next world - Buddhism term

noun:

• novel narrated in the first person

noun / ~する noun:

• on-the-spot investigation or inspection; raid

noun:

• reading (farsighted) glasses; spectacles for the aged

noun / ~する noun:

• making a surgical incision in the abdomen

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• desperation; struggle to the death

noun / ~する noun:

• resignation; giving up the game for lost

expression / adjective:

• what's the best thing to do? ➜ どうしたらいい

noun:

• strong independent Japanese woman from the Kochi area - Tosa dialect

noun:

• TRON; The Realtime Operating System Nucleus - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• lowering the level - From English "level down"

noun:

• courtesy call; making the rounds

noun:

• bequest; relic

~の noun:

• cherished (by the deceased); treasured

noun:

• pigtail; ponytail; hair (hanging down the back)

expression:

• what the hell are you saying? - Kansai dialect

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cut and dry (in the sun)

noun:

• abandoning old people, usu. in the mountains

noun:

• Buddhist sect originating in the seventh century

noun:

• the form and its shadow; things inseparable

noun:

• shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family

noun:

• melt-in-the-mouth feeling