expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

noun:

• on-the-spot investigation

noun:

• soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)

noun:

• room connecting the two main rooms of a building; intermediate room

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be the mother of someone's child

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun:

• the three entertainment district enterprises: eating houses, geisha houses, meeting places for assignations, etc.

noun:

• thirteenth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

expression:

• given the circumstances; such being the case

noun:

• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term
• the seven days of the week

noun:

• above the knee

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to praise to the skies; to extol ➜ 褒めちぎる【ほめちぎる】

noun:

• the same place; the same address; the said place

noun:

• the other party

noun:

• the principle of honorable death and no surrender - four character idiom

noun:

• literary term for the sun

noun:

• something well-known throughout the world

expression:

• the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long; the well with sweet water will be the first to run dry [literal] - proverb

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• fiftieth day after the birth of a child
• fifty days

noun / ~する noun:

• the passage of electric current

noun:

• helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person ➜ 老冠
• kanji "old" radical at top

noun:

• year of the snake

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• a cut above the rest; superior; respectable; full-fledged; something uncommon
• one field; one matter

adverb:

• suitably; reasonably