expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

adverb:

• a little; for a moment; a short while; just a minute ➜ ちょっと

noun:

• women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tread (a nail) into the sole of one's foot; to tread through (the floor)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to kill (with a weapon)
• to defeat an opponent
• to get someone out - Baseball term
• to arrest; to take prisoner

noun:

• jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)

noun:

• ushnisha (protrusion on the top of a buddha's head) - Buddhism term

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

noun:

• mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day ➜ 五十日の祝

noun:

• (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

noun:

• apomictic; of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis; related to reproduction without fertilization, meiosis or production of gametes, with the result that the seeds are genetically identical to the parent plant

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

noun:

• director (of the ritsuryo-period Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office) ➜ 弾正台

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit - onomatopoeia
• irritatedly; impatiently - onomatopoeia
• scorchingly (of the sun) - onomatopoeia
• sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil) - onomatopoeia
• sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc. - onomatopoeia
• oozing out (oil, sweat, etc.); seeping out - onomatopoeia

noun:

• image of the Buddha entering nirvana

noun:

• image of the Buddha entering nirvana ➜ 涅槃像

expression:

• a man is still a man even if his hair is tied with straw; a man is still a man even if he's poor

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony (name derived the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke story "In A Grove")

adverb / ~と adverb:

• choked up (with emotion); heart-wringing; momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one) - esp. 胸がきゅん（と）なる - onomatopoeia

noun:

• blue line
• area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956) ➜ 青線地帯

noun:

• 51% attack (e.g. on a cryptocurrency); disruptive attack on a blockchain by majority holders of computing power

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• echoing beautifully (of the sound produced by striking together jewels or metals); "beautiful (of a melody, etc.)" [figurative] - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• backdoor admission to a school; backdoor entry to a school; buying one's way into school; bribing one's way into a school - four character idiom

noun:

• limits; boundary; domain; zone; sphere; territory
• area (e.g. in programming languages)