expression:

• (I) won't (say) anything no matter what (expression is followed by negative verb relating to say, answer, etc.) to not (tell) even under any threat ➜ 口が裂けても言えない【くちがさけてもいえない】

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

noun:

• Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio

ichidan verb:

• to be affected by (e.g. heat); to suffer from
• to be embarrassed; to be annoyed

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) - abbreviation ➜ 文部省美術展覧会【もんぶしょうびじゅつてんらんかい】

noun / ~する noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; physical work
• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 力役【りきやく】

noun:

• kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards) - archaism
• (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu ➜ 布衣【ほい】

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to incur the wrath of god (e.g. by speaking ill of somebody behind their back); to get into trouble
• to warp one's mouth

noun:

• line-out (rugby); lineout - Sports term
• becoming out by running more than 3 feet outside the base line - Baseball term
• line out (signal)

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:

• various intimate services (e.g. massage) rendered by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform ➜ ＪＫビジネス【ジェイケイビジネス】

noun:

• Maria Kannon; statue of the Virgin Mary disguised as a Buddhist Kannon statue, used by hidden Christians during the Edo period ➜ マリア・観音

expression / adverb:

• if by any chance; just in case; in the worst case; in the unlikely event that; 10000 to 1 [literal]

noun:

• 1st in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 1st note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• 2nd in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 2nd note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• third in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; third note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• 4th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 4th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• 5th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 5th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• 6th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 6th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• 7th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 7th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be pressed for time; to be pressed by urgent business; to have one's pants on fire