expression / adjectival noun:

• crumpled up (of a face; like the face of a Japanese spaniel while it's sneezing) - humorous term

noun:

• Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over - Buddhism term ➜ 八大地獄【はちだいじごく】

noun:

• (looking) over the top of one's glasses
• (looking) through a pair of glasses

expression / noun:

• person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality
• The Emperor's New Clothes (tale by Hans Christian Andersen) - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

noun:

• school of western-inspired Japanese drama which developed towards the end of the Meiji period; shingeki; new-drama (movement)

noun / adjectival noun:

• unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; nonuniformity; blotchiness
• unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; instability
• fickleness; capriciousness; fitfulness

noun:

• Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE) ［ないだいじん］
• Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE)

noun:

• Little New Year (festival held on January 15th); 14th-16th days of the first month of the year; Koshogatsu

noun:

• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums - Sumo term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her

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

noun:

• Negaprion (genus of requiem sharks in the family Carcharhinidae containing the two extant species of lemon sharks)

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 御持たせ物

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

noun:

• Land Price LOOK Report; quarterly trend report of the prices of intensively used land in major cities

expression / adjective:

• having no knowledge (of); knowing nothing about; coming from out of the blue; having no connection with oneself ➜ 身に覚えのある【みにおぼえのある】

noun:

• Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• zaire (currency of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

noun:

• lower floor; downstairs Antonym: 階上
• bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs Antonym: 階上【かいじょう】

noun:

• business affairs of a company
• clerical business of a Shinto shrine

noun:

• one's heart of hearts; the depths of one's mind

noun:

• hairline at nape of neck; nape of neck

noun:

• guest of honor; guest of honour
• good customer; important customer

noun:

• first day of autumn (approx. Aug. 8); first day of fall ➜ 二十四節気

~の noun / noun:

• under the command (of); under the banner (of); influenced (by)