noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

expression:

• you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate (will recite sutras untaught) [literal] - proverb - abbreviation ➜ 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む【もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ】

expression:

• if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter; manjū in the toilet [literal] - proverb ➜ まんじゅう
• hiding something good for oneself alone - idiom

expression:

• even the strong-willed fall into temptation - proverb
• there's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it - proverb

expression:

• having food on the table is more important than having a high social standing; taro stems over family status [literal] - proverb - humorous term

noun:

• the vertical; height
• front-to-back; length
• north-to-south

noun / ~の noun:

• vertical (relationship); hierarchy

noun:

• (weaving) warp ➜ 経糸【たていと】

adverb / ~の noun:

• much more; still more; all the more; more than ever

noun / ~の noun:

• single layer (or storey, etc.)

adverb:

• rather; sooner; preferably - archaism ➜ いっそ

noun:

• rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July)
• rain during the rainy season

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open
• opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• going side-by-side; going abreast
• running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with

expression:

• at every opportunity; whenever possible; whenever the occasion arises; from time to time; occasionally

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw (the winning ticket)
• to apply; to compare; to put (oneself in someone's position) ➜ 当てはめる

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

noun:

• sabre-toothed tiger (prehistoric feline, esp. the species Smilodon fatalis); saber-toothed tiger - abbreviation - From English "sabre tiger"

noun:

• nursing in the home by visiting nurses - From English "day service"

noun:

• giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes - four character idiom

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

noun:

• nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have) ➜ 天狐

expression:

• in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case

expression / adjective:

• spending a day's revenue within the day; not being attached to money (like a true Tokyoite)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to defeat - idiom ➜ 裏かく
• to pierce something all the way through

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to find out the truth; to ascertain; to clarify; to confirm; to verify

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to Tokyo
• returning to the capital - orig. meaning

expression:

• what's the matter?; what's wrong?