noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

noun / ~する noun:

• erection of a monument

noun:

• congratulatory postcards with a spring pattern sold every year in February

expression:

• autumn weather is as fickle as a woman's heart - orig. 男心と秋の空 - proverb ➜ 男心と秋の空

noun:

• start of a romance; beginning of love

noun:

• simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony - Food term ➜ 懐石

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to fire from a job

noun:

• person with a criminal record; violent criminal

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• driving off a troublesome person; getting rid of a nuisance

noun:

• rent-a-cycle

noun:

• name plate on the front of a train, bus, etc.; number plate; rollsign; roll sign - From English "head mark"

noun:

• sound when stopping the blade of a sword with the guard

noun:

• entering a city

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period) ➜ ゆな

expression / noun:

• effectiveness of a drug; efficacy of a drug

noun:

• compilation of a database

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn the rudder of a ship; to change direction (of policy, etc.)

noun:

• breaking through or sneaking past a barrier

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cause a stir; to create a stir; to make a stir; to cause repercussions

noun:

• missing a meal

noun:

• a heavy bomber

noun:

• failing to get a job

noun / ~する noun:

• bestowing a decoration; bestowing an order ➜ 受章