noun:

• information about oneself; one's personal information

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to become clumsy; to miss one's aim

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be a wet-blanket; to spoil a person's pleasure

noun:

• Coma Berenices (constellation); the Berenice's Hair - Astronomy term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk on and on; to talk one's head off

noun:

• popular music; common people's music (as opposed to court music) Antonym: 雅楽

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom

noun:

• portion; one's share

noun:

• red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus); Bennett's wallaby

expression / noun:

• something that looks difficult but actually isn't; swimming in a cold lake during mid-winter seems difficult, but it's nothing to a kappa - idiom

noun:

• young ascetic of the Himalayas; one of the Buddha's past lives - Buddhism term ➜ 釈迦

expression:

• actio libera in causa; manufacturing the conditions of one's own defence (e.g. getting drunk in order to commit a crime)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to think of; to give one's thought to

noun:

• brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area
• miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to encourage someone to expect something; to raise someone's hopes

noun / ~する noun:

• inundating a castle; cutting off a castle's water supply

expression / ichidan verb:

• to gain fame; to make one's name

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞

adjectival noun:

• a long time (since the last time); it's been a while (since I last saw, mailed, etc., you) - Nagoya (and surrounding areas) dialect ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

noun:

• round meat; meat from a pig's thigh (from which ham is made)

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

noun:

• Persian carpet flatworm (Pseudobiceros bedfordi); Bedford's flatworm