expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

noun:

• action film; action movie; action drama ➜ アクションドラマ
• riotous scene; fight scene

expression:

• fighting (tilting at) windmills; working oneself up even though there really isn't anything to fight at - four character idiom
• single-person mimicking a wrestling match

noun:

• arch of the foot; plantar arch; (the part that) does not step on the ground [literal]

noun:

• parhelion; sun dog; sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻月

noun:

• paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻日

noun:

• Thompson's surgeonfish (Acanthurus thompsoni, species of Indo-Pacific tang whose Indian Ocean population lacks the white caudal fin of the Pacific variety)

noun:

• Azuma coat; type of coat worn over a kimono; popular in the middle of the Meiji era

noun:

• reading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning
• reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

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:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

noun:

• distinguished person - four character idiom
• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile plus one extra copy of any of them - Mahjong term

noun:

• collar; lapel; neckband; neck
• nape of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun / ~の noun:

• mutability (of worldly affairs); fleeting shifts and changes (of human life) - four character idiom

noun:

• variety of ceremonial dress made of intertwined cloth and silk threads

noun:

• combination of riichi, tan'yao, and pinfu (common trio of yaku) - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 立直【リーチ】・断ヤオ【タンヤオ】・平和【ピンフ】・タンピン

noun:

• Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food

noun:

• Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food ➜ 食糧法

noun:

• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun:

• year of the hare; year of the rabbit

noun:

• top of the head; crown of the head

noun:

• heat of the day; hottest part of the day

expression / noun:

• passage of the seasons; change of the four seasons