expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind

noun:

• scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer); scapulomancy; spatulamancy; armomancy - archaism

noun:

• breaking up a match (on the decision of the referee, in boxing, etc.) - From English "referee stop"

noun:

• roofed path (lacking walls) connecting the main residence and the side houses (in traditional palatial architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• buildings on the east and west side of the southern pond (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り

noun:

• playing cards bearing proverbs in the traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

expression:

• cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

expression / adverb:

• in the end; after all is said and done; at the striped mullet's ultimate maturity (when the striped mullet is fully grown) [literal] ➜ 鯔【とど】

expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

noun / ~する noun:

• running alone; running solo
• having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
• having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• stylish; smart; fashionable
• high collar ➜ ハイカラー
• hair dressed in a western style

~する noun:

• to dress in the latest Western fashion

noun:

• shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin); to sag (ceiling)
• to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom ➜ 闕腋の袍
• small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) ➜ 八つ口

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

noun:

• liver; innards
• courage; spirit; pluck; guts
• crux; essential point ［きも］

noun:

• soju; Korean spirit typically distilled from rice or sweet potatoes - From Korean

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold in one's mouth

adjectival noun:

• physiological; physical
• visceral; instinctive; in one's guts

noun / ~する noun:

• winning successively; defeating one's enemy in succession

noun:

• one ken in length or breadth (1.818m)