noun:

• mandarin duck

noun:

• playing house

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

noun:

• diaphragm - Anatomy term

noun:

• The Golden Rule ("do unto others as you would have them do unto you") ➜ 金科玉条

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to feel as though ...

noun:

• compassion; affection

noun:

• width

noun:

• cesspit; cesspool

noun:

• warbler being in a valley - obscure term ➜ 鶯遷【おうせん】
• valley in which warblers live - obscure term
• remaining obscure and unsuccessful - obscure term ➜ 鶯遷【おうせん】

noun:

• bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead [literal]

noun:

• Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)

noun:

• major stockholder; large shareholder

noun:

• place to put things; shed; storage space ➜ 置き場
• place to put oneself - usu. as 身の置き所 ➜ 身の置き所がない・身の置き所もない

noun / ~する noun:

• wetting oneself; peeing in one's pants - children's language

noun:

• shining example of a man

noun:

• Girl's Festival (March 3) ➜ 雛祭り

noun:

• bobbed hair - from resemblance to the mythical kappa's hair style ➜ 河童

noun:

• king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus)

noun:

• Large Hadron Collider; LHC

expression / noun:

• serious crime; grave crime

noun:

• older lady - archaism - honorific language

noun:

• people or companies that forcefully and illegally expel defaulting tenants from their lodgings

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 旅所

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• of established reputation; fully established; (universally) recognized; acknowledged; leading ➜ 押しも押されもせぬ