noun:

• red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals

ichidan verb:

• (for a fruit) to go bad and lose its shape from being overripe or damaged
• to feel listless; to be dull; to be lazy; to look bored

noun:

• monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification

adverb:

• opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• driving someone too hard

noun:

• long life and happiness

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

noun:

• era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II - Sumo term

expression:

• be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth - from Genesis 1:28 - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• toil and hardship

noun:

• special fast (local) train

noun:

• line between victory and defeat

noun:

• the six articles of faith and five pillars of Islam

noun:

• copy and paste - IT term

noun:

• weights and measures

expression:

• pricking up one's ears and listening; listening attentively - from the Disney movie Dumbo

noun / ~する noun:

• being circumscribed by one's own words and actions

noun:

• poets and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting, and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• the five pillars of Islam and six articles of faith ➜ 六信五行

noun:

• light shower on a night in late autumn and early winter - four character idiom

noun:

• long and short stitch

expression:

• taste for the simple and quiet; wabi and sabi

noun:

• small, thin fabric belt worn over the kimono and under the obi in order to protect the fabric

noun:

• joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)

noun:

• pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing - four character idiom ➜ 夏山冬里方式