noun:

• whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna

noun / adjectival noun:

• the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

expression:

• each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; when there are ministries, there is no country [literal] - proverb

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

adverb / ~する noun:

• straight; quickly; directly; all of a sudden - スーッと and すうっと are more emphatic - onomatopoeia
• quietly; gently; softly - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to feel refreshed; to feel satisfied

noun / ~する noun:

• parting in tears; tearful parting; coming to grief; having to take a different tack; going separate ways

suffix noun:

• suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be indelibly stained or ingrained; to be dyed in deeply

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)

noun:

• tapir (Tapirus spp.)
• mo; mythological Chinese chimera similar to a tapir, said to devour bad dreams

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become empty (hollow)
• to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state

noun:

• inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a gesture or say something during a break in conversation, playing of songs, etc.; to interrupt

noun:

• available to promise (i.e. a product is in stock and can be promised to a buyer); ATP

noun:

• water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout - Sumo term
• fresh water used when making up one's face

expression:

• it is no crime to steal flowers; phrase used to justify picking flowers from others' gardens, parks, etc. - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make a gesture or say something during a break in conversation, playing of songs, etc.; to interrupt - incorrect variant of 合いの手を入れる ➜ 合いの手を入れる

expression:

• thousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry [literal] - proverb ➜ 一将功成りて万骨枯る

expression / noun:

• ball of a finger; finger cushion; pulp of the finger; pad of the finger

noun:

• college of the arts; university of the arts; art university

noun:

• college of the arts; university of the arts; art university - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• victimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year