noun:

• as is habit; the way life normally is

expression:

• the student has become the master; blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo [literal] - proverb

noun:

• fight
• fighting spirit - abbreviation ➜ ファイティングスピリット

interjection:

• fight!; do your best; go for it; keep at it

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

expression:

• google it, scum; just fucking google it; JFGI - slang - vulgar

expression:

• ... is the reason; ... is my excuse - after verb or adj.

noun / ~する noun:

• somersault
• returning from a destination right after arriving there; non-stop round trip; round trip without an overnight stop
• abrupt change of direction

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day ➜ 三度の飯より好き【さんどのめしよりすき】

expression:

• art is long, life is short; ars longa, vita brevis - proverb

noun:

• Chinese classic without reading aids; book without reading aids ➜ 無点本

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

expression:

• let sleeping dogs lie; if it ain't broke, don't fix it - proverb

expression:

• It's absolute heaven; It's sheer bliss - four character idiom

expression:

• (it was) not until; (it was) only when

expression:

• don't worry about it; forget about it

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day [literal]

expression:

• the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; Art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction - four character idiom

expression:

• money comes and goes; money goes around and around - proverb

godan ~る verb:

• to wander about; to wander around; to hang around; to loiter

conjunction / auxiliary:

• even without doing; even without being - attaches to the imperfective form

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる

noun:

• specialized course; specialised course
• something that is specialized for a certain field or application (e.g. a sauce specially made for zaru soba)

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa