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

noun:

• four-in-hand (type of necktie)

noun:

• highest ranking prostitute in Yoshiwara (from the Houreki era onward) ➜ 宝暦【ほうれき】

noun:

• cross in a circle

noun:

• scheme in which a man and woman trick another man into a compromising situation for blackmail; badger game

noun / ~する noun:

• bathing (swimming) in cold water

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to shut oneself up in one's study

noun:

• wedge marks in stone (usu. remaining from stone-splitting, now used for visual effect) - obscure term ➜ 矢【や】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to take in; to attract

noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• foods abstained from in hopes of having one's desire granted

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• quiet and subdued in appearance; solemn; sad and depressed in manner; soft; gentle

noun:

• beast in human form - four character idiom

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger ➜ 双鉤法

noun / ~する noun:

• moderation in smoking

noun:

• tub used to collect feces in an outhouse ➜ 便壺

noun:

• rate in foreign currency

noun:

• game in which the object is to topple the opposing team's pole