noun / ~する noun:

• using one's own judgement; making up one's own mind; judging for oneself

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be launched (e.g. rocket); to lift off
• to be washed up (on the shore)

noun:

• space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper)
• surface of paper
• letter; writings; document

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• white heat; incandescence
• becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax

noun:

• variant (in a manuscript or book); part of a text that differs from other versions

noun / ~する noun:

• criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique

noun:

• apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock ➜ 火蓋を切る

noun:

• blow to a vital point of a person's body; striking techniques (judo) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• a couple strangely but happily united; uncanny relationship formed by a quirk of fate - four character idiom

expression:

• doing one's own flower arranging
• marrying or making a mistress of a geisha

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun:

• services performed in perpetuity by a Buddhist temple for the repose of a departed soul - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• go into a huddle (over); hold a secret conference (about); put heads together and conspire - four character idiom

noun:

• scooter with a compartment under the seat to hold a helmet - From English "(hel)met in" ➜ メット

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a damper on proceedings (e.g. at a meeting or party, etc.)

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• text message or symbol on a busy mobile phone indicating a call arrival (DoCoMo feature)

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo); oroblanco

noun:

• skipping grades; the act of entering a new school as a non-first-year student

noun:

• underboob; bottom of a woman's breasts (visible when wearing a short top) - slang ➜ オッパイ

noun:

• place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance - esp. 吉野山 in Nara

expression:

• owing a lot to somebody; being indebted; never forgetting someone who has done a favour

noun:

• picture painted with oil paint (esp. a landscape mural in a public bath)