noun:

• water warmed in the sun

noun:

• international law in time of war

noun:

• plug-in (software); plugin - IT term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make one's way in the world; to earn one's living; to live - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to show a guest in

noun:

• woman employed in a restaurant, teahouse or teahouse offering sexual services ➜ 茶屋・色茶屋

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by overindulging in food and drink (as a fabled tendency of the people of Osaka) ➜ 京の着倒れ・食い倒れ

expression:

• in contrast to (one's, its) appearance

noun:

• preserving in sugar; food preserved in sugar

adverb:

• in case of; at that time; at this time

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

noun:

• wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince - Sumo term

expression:

• even if it means living in dire poverty; by all means

noun:

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

noun:

• soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin - abbreviation ➜ 味付け玉子【あじつけたまご】

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

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】

noun / ~する noun:

• participating in something by merely following the leaders - four character idiom

noun:

• EIKEN Test in Practical English Proficiency; STEP test ➜ 英検【えいけん】

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians) - four character idiom

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

expression:

• while looking on in blank amazement; while gazing at it in shock ➜ あれよあれよ

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to call in; to invite; to bring in