expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun:

• activist (in a political movement); crusader (e.g. for women's rights)

noun:

• activist; campaigner; crusader (e.g. for women's rights) ➜ 活動家
• athlete; sporty person

noun / ~する noun:

• lover's whispers; sweet nothings; whispered intimacies

noun:

• babbling (of a baby); babble

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to have one's heart touched (by something very moving)

noun / ~する noun:

• focus of one's attention (on a specific field); commitment to something

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

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

noun / adjectival noun:

• stubbornly sticking to old ways; narrow-mindedly rejecting other people's views - four character idiom

noun:

• practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking off short (in one's speech); rendered speechless for a moment - four character idiom

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• far beyond one's power; not at all equal; no match for ➜ 及びもつかぬ

noun:

• feeling of food or drink going down one's throat - often of beer

noun:

• being devoted; spending all one's time and energy on

noun / ~する noun:

• talking about one's love interests; girls' talk; gossiping - abbreviation - colloquialism

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

interjection:

• impossible; futile - From Chinese "bugouben"

noun:

• type of children's game
• Chinese person; Chink - derogatory term - obsolete term

expression:

• of all people (expression showing surprise at a high standing person's misbehavior)

noun:

• determination of a child's sex before birth (e.g. by ultrasound)

noun / ~の noun:

• ignoring; bypassing; doing something without consultation; going over someone's head

noun:

• gold braid (e.g. on a military officer's uniform)