noun:

• hair of different color mixed into an animal's coat (colour)

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call

noun:

• catching someone's attention by winking and tugging at their sleeve

noun:

• female lay devotee - Buddhism term
• title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name

noun:

• win an election due to another's death or disqualification

noun:

• cramped home; one's humble abode; hovel; pigsty; cottage; squalid hut

noun:

• clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine) ➜ 拍手【はくしゅ】

expression / adjective:

• remaining firm; sticking by one's principles; not budging an inch

noun:

• duty of confidentiality (concerning private matters learned through one's business) - four character idiom

noun:

• strip of paper featuring advertisements, wrapped around a book's jacket

noun:

• saliva held in one's mouth during times of tension ➜ 固唾をのむ【かたずをのむ】

noun:

• pushing up with hands under opponent's armpits; armpit push - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term

noun:

• cemetery for those who left no relatives behind; potter's field - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs - four character idiom

noun:

• acting according to one's own beliefs, being undisturbed by others - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's dress (e.g. at the wedding reception)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• highly renowned; on everybody's lips; enjoying a high reputation - four character idiom

noun:

• annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

expression:

• Freedom from one's desires (Entry into Nirvana) is true bliss - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• moral (spiritual) improvement; practice mental training; cultivate one's mind (soul) - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist image used as jewellery or to decorate one's home - obscure term

noun:

• having part of one's underwear exposed from their shorts - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash