noun:

• the descent to earth of the grandson of the sun goddess - four character idiom

noun:

• atmospheric oxidation; oxidation upon exposure to the air; air oxidation; smoothering

noun:

• viewing noh; seeing a noh play; going to a noh theater

noun / ~する noun:

• natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• absence; being away from home

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter

noun:

• being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting - usu. as お留守になる

noun:

• reason; principle; logic
• general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) - Buddhism term ➜ 事【じ】
• (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos

noun / ~する noun:

• work-to-rule; go-slow strike; slowdown - From French "sabotage"
• being idle; slackening; being truant; playing hooky; skipping school; skipping out ➜ サボる

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• peep; peeping

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures - abbreviation ➜ 覗き機関

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun:

• New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction

suffix:

• taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.)
• similar to ...
• dependent on ...; reliant on ...
• while ...; when ...; in the midst of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• brimming with youthful enthusiasm; in high spirits; raring to go; overflowing with youthful energy; acting all cute and charged up - used mainly of girls - onomatopoeia - colloquialism ➜ 浮き浮き

expression:

• don't judge a book by its cover; a mountain is not to be honoured just because it is high [literal] - proverb

expression:

• there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary - after a verb
• does not match; out of reach of - after a noun

noun:

• nitrogen mustard (chemical compound related to mustard gas, used as a chemical weapon or an anticarcinogen)

expression:

• zip it (when used to others); I'll shut up (when used by oneself); button (one's) lips - colloquialism ➜ チャック

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半鐘
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• song sung by children during the New Year's bird-driving procession (later adopted by door-to-door musicians) ➜ 鳥追い【とりおい】・門付歌