noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure - abbreviation

noun:

• unlined in the back

~する verb (spec.):

• to take part in; to be implicated in; to side with; to support

noun / ~する noun:

• kicking a ball in mid-air (soccer, football) - From English "volley shoot"

noun:

• plan for one's life; life planning

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

noun:

• portable paper lantern for walking at night

noun / ~する noun:

• looking slender in clothing ➜ 着太り

noun:

• customers losing interest in product or shop

noun:

• grill or grate for toasting rice cakes

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun:

• Korean living in Japan; person of Korean descent - colloquialism

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to roll around in the grass or mud

noun:

• win of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• late Edo-period pejorative for the Dutch; red-haired barbarian [literal]

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• (something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery - four character idiom

noun:

• udon in soup thickened with (powdered) kudzu ➜ 餡かけ【あんかけ】

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• vigorous for one's age; active despite one's years; hale and hearty; full of beans - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the Orient for the Orientals

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• blossoms falling in confusion - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• both in name and reality; both in name and substance ➜ 名実相伴う