expression:

• while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by overindulging in food and drink (as a fabled tendency of the people of Osaka) ➜ 京の着倒れ・食い倒れ

noun:

• folk song from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture (used as a Bon Festival dance song)

expression:

• so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

noun:

• approximate age; apparent age ➜ 年の頃

noun / ~の noun:

• marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; age of adulthood

noun:

• appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...) - after modifying phrase

noun / adverbial noun:

• past few years; for some years - archaism ➜ 年来

noun:

• second-generation Diet member; second-generation politician; Diet member who succeeded a parent ➜ 世襲議員

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• bursting with youth and energy (esp. young woman); vivaciously young; spunky; energetic - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• (fish) jumping around energetically (e.g. when caught in a net) - onomatopoeia

~の noun:

• bursting (e.g. seams); tight - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• splattering (e.g. cooking oil) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• one thin flat object; one sheet

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to come near; to let someone approach
• to bring near; to bring together; to collect; to gather
• to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to contribute; to donate
• to let someone drop by
• to add (numbers)
• to have feelings for (love, goodwill, trust, etc.)
• to rely upon for a time; to depend on
• to use as a pretext
• to put aside
• to press; to push; to force
• to include; to welcome (in a group); to let in - Kansai dialect

noun:

• black suit; mourning clothes
• black-suited staff member (e.g. in restaurant, sex establishment, etc.)

noun:

• sex establishment in which staff dress in costumes (schoolgirl, nurse, etc.) - From English "image club"

noun / ~の noun:

• heavenly body; celestial body; astronomical object

noun:

• subject and object; activity and passivity - Buddhism term

noun:

• data entity; data object - IT term

particle:

• only; merely; nothing but; no more than
• approximately; about
• just (finished, etc.) - after the -ta form of a verb
• as if to; (as though) about to - after an attributive form or auxiliary verb ぬ(ん), also often …とばかり(に) ➜ 言わんばかり【いわんばかり】
• indicates emphasis - in the form …とばかり or …とばかりに
• always; constantly

expression / adverb:

• as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

noun:

• method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs; traditional dyed cloth from Okinawa

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smoke (a cigarette)
• to behave as ... ➜ 先輩風を吹かす
• to accelerate; to rev up ➜ エンジンを吹かす

noun:

• lining a kimono with the same material as the kimono itself

~の noun / adverb:

• two by two; by twos; as a couple

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child

noun:

• basic metal (in an art object); old metal

noun:

• suspicious object (e.g. potential bomb); suspicious substance