expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning ➜ 孟母三遷の教え

noun:

• New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls ➜ 餅【もち】・繭玉

noun:

• fishermen's banner hoisted to indicate a rich haul; big-catch flag

noun:

• the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals - archaism ➜ 旗本【はたもと】

noun:

• Bodhi Day; Buddhist holiday on December 8 to celebrate Shakyamuni's enlightenment

noun:

• calluses (on one's ankles, insteps, etc.) caused by sitting seiza ➜ 正座【せいざ】

noun:

• legal competency; criminal responsibility; ability to fulfil one's responsibilities; full accountability

noun:

• going elsewhere
• travelling afar with one's client (of a geisha, etc.)

noun:

• decorated pottery container for storing the bones of one's ancestors (Okinawa) - called じ〜しか〜み or じ〜しが〜み in Okinawa ➜ 厨子

expression:

• that's right; very well; it would be best to ...

noun:

• memorial ceremony held on the 100th day of a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• one's hand being completely concealed; not having called any tiles - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• one's hand being completely concealed; not having called any tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 門前清

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence

noun:

• taking food with one's chopsticks upside down (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• even the gods drink sake; there's nothing wrong with drinking - proverb

noun:

• leaving (something) up to one's man (e.g. husband, boyfriend, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• doing something separately (from the group); going off on one's own Antonym: 団体行動

noun:

• foot towel; cloth for wiping the bottoms of one's feet

noun:

• to think or act fairly without concern for one's own benefit - four character idiom

noun:

• blues experienced by man who did not receive Valentine's day chocolate - slang

noun:

• winning on a tile robbed from another player's kong - Mahjong term ➜ 加槓【かカン】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to open (e.g. doors) - esp. 開く
• to open (e.g. business, etc.) - esp. 開く
• to be empty - esp. 空く
• to be vacant; to be available; to be free - esp. 空く
• to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く
• to come to an end - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.) - esp. 明く

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to have a hole; to form a gap; to have an interval (between events) ➜ 穴が開く

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• spring; springtime
• New Year
• prime (of one's life, etc.)
• adolescence; puberty
• sexuality