adverb / expression:

• (carrying) close to one's person; next to the skin

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fail one step short of great success; to fall at the last hurdle - idiom

adverb:

• one after another; in succession

noun:

• reader's column; letters-to-the-editor column

expression / noun / adjectival noun:

• lacking substance; poor in content

expression:

• two things that do not go well together; pairing kintsuba with loach soup [literal] - idiom ➜ 金鍔【きんつば】

noun:

• Taurus (constellation); the Bull

noun:

• kalavinka; imaginary bird in paradise that sings sweet notes - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

noun:

• poets and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting, and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• leaf apex; tip of the leaf

noun:

• epi-illumination; illumination that impinges on the sample from the viewing direction

noun:

• whipping (horse racing); using the whip

noun:

• former crown prince; the late crown prince

noun:

• hosts; all the armies

expression / adverb:

• as hard as one can; with one's whole heart ➜ 捩じり鉢巻き

noun / ~する noun:

• mountain hiking; walking in the mountains

noun / ~の noun:

• non-virgin woman; woman with sexual experience - sensitive

noun:

• fukagawa-meshi; rice cooked with clams

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with

noun:

• ague; intermittent fever; the shakes; malarial fever (old name)

noun:

• Aequidens; genus of fish in the family Cichlidae

noun / adjectival noun (achaic):

• like that; in that manner - archaism

noun:

• Petromyzon; genus of lamprey in the family Petromyzontidae

expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant