noun:

• one's true worth; one's true self; what one is really made of

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• bull; ox; steer ➜ 雌牛

noun:

• nobleman's illegitimate child
• product (of e.g. war); (figurative) offspring; aftermath

noun:

• straw boat for one's ancestral spirits to sail in

noun:

• cat eye (syndrome)

noun:

• manifestation (revelation) of one's natural sincerity (naivete) - four character idiom

noun:

• Japan's first coinage (dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation) ➜ 和同開珎

noun:

• one's mental state - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• attaching 'san' to somebody's name

noun:

• anniversary of Shiki Masaoka's death (September 19th)

expression / godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall into someone's hands; to place oneself in someone's power

noun:

• people's commune - in China

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun:

• pensive (or worried) look on one's face

noun:

• survivor's pension or annuity

noun:

• one's financial standing

noun:

• traveller's tree (Ravenala madagascariensis); traveller's palm ➜ 旅人の木

noun:

• women's toilet

noun:

• Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus)

noun:

• one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to lose one's life

noun:

• warming one's crotch by standing over a hibachi

expression / ichidan verb:

• to soften one's voice

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite - idiom ➜ 猫をかぶる【ねこをかぶる】