expression / noun:

• calls and sounds made by insects

noun:

• trade promotion by a government or industrial leader - From English "top sales"

noun:

• tiles matching one's seat wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 門風

noun:

• polite Japanese as used by young part-time employees in restaurants, etc. - derogatory term ➜ バイト・敬語

noun / ~する noun:

• woman or girl who acts cute by playing innocent and helpless - derogatory term - slang ➜ ぶる

noun:

• one's deceased younger brother

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to idle away one's time

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take up one's chopsticks (to begin a meal); to start to eat; to eat

expression / ichidan verb:

• to duck one's head

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

expression:

• to stand high in one's superior's favor and trust ➜ 覚えがめでたい

noun:

• bridegroom who is loved by his bride

noun:

• outside near the door to one's home - archaism

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun / ~する noun:

• coming of a visitor to one's home

noun:

• food (meat, fish, vegetables, etc.) cooked separately but served together on one dish

noun:

• dying for one's country - four character idiom

noun:

• radio waves, as sent out and received by people's minds - slang

adverb:

• to one's heart's content

expression:

• everything one does

noun:

• era during 1960s dominated by grand champions Taiho and Kashiwado - Sumo term ➜ 柏鵬時代

expression / ichidan verb:

• to burn into one's memory; to sear an image

noun:

• bowing one's head (in respect or worship); worship

suffix noun:

• respectfully yours - after one's own name at the end of a letter - honorific language

expression:

• together with one's lot