noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

noun:

• marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family; virilocal marriage

noun:

• type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)

noun:

• Gray's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi)

noun:

• changing one's clothes; a change of clothes - honorific language

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep one's word

noun / ~する noun:

• inability to make up one's mind due to worrying about how others will think; hesitation; wavering; vacillation - four character idiom

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru"

noun:

• divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow

noun:

• one's appearance; clothing; costume; dress

noun:

• women's studies

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop the opponent by pressing one's head into his chest - Sumo term

expression:

• a small leak will sink a great ship - proverb

expression:

• red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning - proverb

noun:

• 35th day after a person's death

noun:

• Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge ➜ 妻入り

noun:

• one's manner of walking

noun:

• honorific reference to another's kind intentions

noun:

• Rüppell's fox (Vulpes rueppellii); Rueppell's fox; sand fox

noun:

• height from the ground to a building's eaves

expression:

• it's hard to choose (because both are excellent)

noun:

• Pousargues's mongoose (Dologale dybowskii); African tropical savannah mongoose

expression:

• That's not true! - Ōsaka dialect ➜ ちゃう

noun:

• chow chow (dog) ［チャウチャウ］

noun:

• New Year's sake; spiced sake

noun:

• the husband of one's elder sister