noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武

expression:

• doing nothing; folding one's arms

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to establish a school of; to make a home of one's own

noun / adjectival noun:

• free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes - four character idiom

noun:

• brother complex; unnatural attachment to one's brother (esp. by his sister) - abbreviation ➜ ブラザーコンプレックス・シスコン
• black contemporary (music) - abbreviation ➜ ブラックコンテンポラリー

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

adjectival noun:

• comprador-like; being an underling to a foreign company to the detriment of one's own country

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

counter:

• double; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

noun:

• same generation; one's generation

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun:

• sun of wisdom; Buddha's or Bodhisattva's limitless light of wisdom - Buddhism term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind

expression:

• nurture over nature; how one is brought up matters more than one's origins - proverb

noun:

• Sado mole (Mogera tokudae); Tokuda's mole

noun:

• face plant; landing on one's face - slang - Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• scraping together (a sum of money); raising (a sum of money) by straining one's credit - four character idiom

expression:

• quickly, suddenly (while one is watching); before one's eyes

noun:

• wrinkled hands from being in water; washerwoman's hands

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• lesser Ryukyu shrew (Crocidura watasei); Watase's shrew

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• auscultation; listening to a person's chest with a stethoscope - Medicine term