noun:

• poetic sentiment or inspiration; poetic inclination or taste; poem-composing mood; ability to appreciate poetry

noun / ~の noun:

• bottom-up approach to management; on-the-spot decision-making; hands-on approach (policy, etc.)

noun:

• guide melody (karaoke melody to help the singer hold the tune)

noun:

• even pitch; accentless pitch; Japanese pitch accent pattern with no drop from high to low pitch

noun:

• happy trail (line of hair from the navel to the genitals); pubic hair

expression / adjective:

• being unable to leave the work at hand; being right in the middle of something - idiom

~の noun:

• (of luggage, etc.) able to be taken into the cabin of the aircraft; carry-on

noun / ~の noun:

• first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)

noun:

• sukiyaki stock; stock mixed with soy sauce, mirin and sugar (used to flavor sukiyaki) - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 割り下地

expression:

• the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one - proverb

expression:

• leaving the remaining corrections up to the printer after having finished proofreading; OK with corrections - abbreviation

noun / ~の noun:

• very stormy weather (at sea)

noun:

• very poor catch of fish (due to stormy seas)

expression / noun:

• leaving the remaining corrections up to the printer after having finished proofreading; OK with corrections ➜ 責了

noun:

• wait-and-see; sitting on the fence; waiting to see which way the wind blows

noun:

• bicycle decorated with anime characters; painful bicycle (i.e. painful to look at) - colloquialism - humorous term ➜ 痛車【いたしゃ】

noun:

• twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

noun:

• whole cake; cake sold whole (as opposed to in individual slices)

noun:

• confidential report to the ruler of the country of astronomical events and their astrological interpretation - archaism

noun:

• arranging beforehand to tell the same story; getting the stories straight; coordinating one's stories ➜ 口裏を合わせる

noun:

• sensitivity to the times; sense of the times - four character idiom

adverb:

• to one's face; in one's presence

noun / ~の noun:

• mid-to-long term; medium and long term

noun / ~する noun:

• sudden rise to power; sudden rise in prosperity

noun / ~する noun:

• books returned unsold; books returned to the library

noun:

• dyeing
• dyed goods; goods to be dyed