noun:

• person oblivious to the fact they are irritating or inconveniencing others; pain in the neck; pest - colloquialism

noun:

• owner-operator company; corporation in which the business manager is also the major stockholder

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

noun / ~する noun:

• pretending to respect someone while in fact staying distant; keeping at arms length; giving a wide berth
• avoiding (something unpleasant); shying away from
• giving the batter an "intentional walk" - Baseball term

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to challenge (esp. in a lawsuit); to take on an opponent (in negotiations, contest, etc.)

expression:

• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

noun:

• shadow cast by Mount Fuji; image of Mount Fuji as reflected in a lake, etc.

noun:

• a member of one's "in group" (e.g. one's family, employees, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• number one; first; first place

adverb:

• best; most

noun:

• game; round; bout

adverb:

• as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively ➜ 試しに

noun:

• song (e.g. in noh); piece

expression / ichidan verb:

• to search for a way out of a potentially fatal situation; to seek for a way out of a desperate situation

noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• caricaturing
• turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something ➜ 漫画

noun / ~の noun:

• revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization - four character idiom

noun:

• head of a pipe, incl. the bowl and stem attachment
• neck; head - colloquialism

noun:

• lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light

noun:

• rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)

noun:

• cord tied around the waist of a kimono before an obi is tied

expression / adjective:

• extremely busy; so busy one would even welcome the help of a cat [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• burial (disposal of a body) by exposure to the elements; aerial sepulture (burial)

noun:

• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

expression / noun:

• demonym; name used to refer to the residents of a country, region, etc.

noun:

• lunula (white crescent-shaped area at the base of a nail); nail moon

noun:

• open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")