noun:

• fraudulent way of business, cajoling people into buying articles for an extremely high price by claiming they will bring good luck - four character idiom

noun:

• transfer of rights; demise; quitclaim deed

expression:

• in view of the facts

noun:

• field of paulownia trees

expression / noun:

• tears of joy

noun:

• deed of absolute sale

noun:

• thirty-first day of the month
• thirty-one days

expression:

• undesirable state brought about by (my) lack of virtue; feeling morally responsible; mea culpa - with an apologetic tone

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for a good hit at a pitch - Baseball term

noun:

• a purveyor to the government - four character idiom

noun:

• year of the Dragon ➜ 辰の年【たつのとし】

noun:

• lettering of an engraving

noun:

• person given as a reference; witness
• potential suspect; person of interest
• witness

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

noun:

• number of people; population
• human head ［じんとう］

noun:

• era at the turn of 1960s into 70s dominated by grand champions Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi - Sumo term ➜ 北玉時代

noun:

• marks in a water channel

noun:

• subject of an investigation; object being examined

expression / adjective:

• capable of anything; liable to do ➜ 仕兼ねる

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to commit a crime; to commit a sin

noun:

• column of mercury

noun:

• play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

noun:

• signature or written seal at the end of a document

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• a small leak will sink a great ship - proverb