noun:

• place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑

expression / noun:

• useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• radical change in mentality; radically changing one's way of thinking; radical change in consciousness - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bite; to sink one's teeth into; to nip

noun:

• being once divorced; one-time divorcee; one x mark, i.e. one name struck from the koseki [literal] - humorous term ➜ 戸籍

noun:

• first and second volume (e.g. of a book); volume one and volume two; book one and book two

ichidan verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

noun:

• double role; one person playing two roles; wearing two hats - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

noun / ~の noun:

• being free from all distracting thoughts; keeping one's mind clear of all worldly thoughts; being free from all ideas and thoughts - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind ➜ ど忘れ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to spring up; to leap to one's feet; to jump up and down

noun:

• baggage check; check one's baggage; book one's luggage - abbreviation

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story ➜ 泣き落とす

noun:

• lungs and livers; depths of one's heart; innermost heart

noun:

• sole proprietor; one-man business; self-employed

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• image change; changing one's image; makeover - abbreviation ➜ イメージチェンジ

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

noun:

• first volume (in set); volume one; book one ➜ 下巻・中巻

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension

noun:

• persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story - colloquialism ➜ 泣き落とし

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember