expression:

• like water off a duck's back; urine on a frog's face [literal] - colloquialism ➜ 蛙の面に水

noun:

• citing or naming a variety of flowers
• multi-flowered design

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to show a guest in

noun:

• formal opening of a new theater (theatre)

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• woman employed in a restaurant, teahouse or teahouse offering sexual services ➜ 茶屋・色茶屋

noun:

• taking a junior high-school entrance examination

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a rest under a tree; to rest in the shade of a tree

noun:

• a work or subject to be memorized (memorised)

noun / ~する noun:

• aim to make a country a travel destination

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coin a new word; to neologize

noun:

• final third of a two-hour period

noun:

• hanging advertisement inside a rail car

noun:

• area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 内帯
• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本外帯

noun:

• incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke

noun:

• noh mask resembling a dignified youth

noun:

• sound of a word; sounds of speech; phoneme

noun:

• method of learning through repetition conceived by Kageyama Hideo, which involves multiplying and other calculations carried out on a 10-by-10 grid of numbers

noun / ~する noun:

• a swim

noun:

• kite shaped like a footman

expression:

• a child is an everlasting responsibility - proverb

noun:

• study of how to be a good emperor

expression:

• there is no rose without a thorn; every rose has its thorn - proverb

noun:

• give water to a dying person; water given to a dying person

noun:

• 6th in a sequence denoted by the iroha system; 6th note in the diatonic scale (used in key names, etc.)