noun:

• woman's most sexually attractive age

noun:

• bedroom; (woman's) bedchamber; pillow talk

noun:

• woman factory worker in weaving industry

expression / noun:

• urbane and good-looking woman ➜ 渋皮がむける

noun:

• working woman

prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:

• female; woman ➜ 雄【お】

noun:

• wife - archaism

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• (woman with) beautiful eyes and mouth - idiom ➜ 目元千両

noun:

• bad-tempered woman; shrew; vixen; virago ➜ じゃじゃ馬

noun:

• beautiful man and woman; handsome couple

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to bide one's time; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持する

noun:

• gourmet food; delicious food

noun / ~する noun:

• dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure

noun:

• inferior goods; low-quality article
• trifling gift ［粗品］ - humble language
• gift given out by companies to customers as a token of gratitude; marketing incentive ［粗品］

noun:

• macrobiotics; prevention and cure of disease through diet (as expounded by Sagen Ishizuka (1850-1909))
• taking nourishing food; eating a balanced diet - abbreviation ➜ 食養生【しょくようじょう】
• dietetics ➜ 食事療法学

noun:

• dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder) - Food term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• for something unexpected to happen (to someone or something one is close to) - idiom

expression:

• (deciding to do something) abruptly; at the turn of a dime - usu. as 足元から鳥が立つように - idiom

noun:

• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

noun:

• box in which ashes of the deceased are kept; box in which a funerary urn is kept

noun:

• man's appearance; man's behaviour; someone disguised as a man

noun:

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

noun:

• whole party; party as a whole

adverb:

• that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean; that (this, it) means
• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it; basically

noun:

• clogging; obstruction; stuffing; (degree of) blockage
• shrinkage
• end; conclusion ➜ とどのつまり
• dead end; corner - archaism
• distress; being at the end of one's rope - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to set up; to raise
• to nominate; to choose as a representative
• to push; to shove

noun:

• adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives