noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

~の noun / noun:

• attractive to men; in a style (appearance, look, etc.) that men fall for

noun:

• amorous woman

noun:

• widow's peak; hairline that grows to a point in the middle of the forehead

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• brimming with fighting spirit; being strong in the will to fight; burning with combativeness - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it); being stone-deaf to someone's appeals - four character idiom

noun:

• (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom) - four character idiom

noun:

• radically change public sentiment; leading the thought of the people to an entirely different channel - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• too much for one to handle; beyond one's capacity; unmanageable; uncontrollable; incorrigible; obstreperous

noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

noun:

• scooter with a compartment under the seat to hold a helmet - From English "(hel)met in" ➜ メット

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a damper on proceedings (e.g. at a meeting or party, etc.)

noun:

• Ksitigarbha (jizo) who listens to people's complaints (statue at the Keihou Temple at Nagoya)

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• air guitar (imaginary instrument used when pretending to play the guitar)

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

expression:

• not exactly correct, but pretty close to it; not far off the mark

particle:

• particle used to indicate that what precedes it is an extreme example and strongly negates it ➜ どころか

noun / ~する noun:

• rationalization (modifying part of an irrational expression, esp. denominators, to exclude roots or irrational numbers) - Mathematics term

noun:

• V-sign; hand gesture similar to the peace sign, representing victory or happiness

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) - abbreviation ➜ ブラザーコンプレックス・シスコン
• black contemporary (music) - abbreviation ➜ ブラックコンテンポラリー

noun:

• hairstyle with hair cut short to typical men's hair length - From English "very short"