noun:

• departing from this world in disdain - Buddhism term

noun:

• Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

noun / ~する noun:

• watching from afar

noun:

• eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring - four character idiom

expression:

• from right to left; in one ear and out the other
• nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado

noun:

• land distant from the capital

expression:

• from the best to the worst; from top to bottom; of every kind; all sorts - abbreviation ➜ ピンからキリまで

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun:

• absence from work (school) due to mourning

noun:

• prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

noun:

• hiding one's intelligence to avoid being different from the common people ➜ 和光同塵

noun:

• wedgie (to a girl) i.e. pulling up the underwear from the back, driving it into the vulva - vulgar

noun:

• announcement from backstage (theatre, television) ➜ アナウンスメント

noun:

• type of popular literature from the late Edo period

noun:

• water from the capital (Kyoto), rumored to have a whitening effect - archaism
• type of washing lotion from the end of the Edo period - archaism ➜ 化粧水

expression:

• from one end to another; thoroughly; completely; utterly

noun:

• liquid cosmetic made from loofah extract

noun:

• sprouts from a stump - esp. 余蘖 ➜ 蘖え
• ruined family surviving through a descendant - esp. 余孽

noun:

• place exposed to winds which blow up from below (usu. a beach); beach exposed to sea winds
• fountain

noun / ~する noun:

• getting tired from dealing with people; getting tired of being around people

noun:

• shooting from the hip
• starting something without sufficient preparation; acting on a vague estimate (of the situation) - idiom

noun:

• precipitation resulting from thick fog condensing on leaves in a forest

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be away from home; to be out of the house