noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓

noun:

• Megachasma (sole genus of the rare deep water megamouth shark in the family Megachasmidae)

noun:

• Loxodon (genus containing the sliteye shark as its only member in the family Carcharhinidae)

noun:

• first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being ➜ 本門

expression / adjective:

• With the best will in the world, you can't say that it's good

noun:

• sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (often a homosexual or transsexual male) - Linguistics term

expression / noun:

• the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - idiom

noun:

• town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

noun:

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

expression / noun:

• the year end; end of the year; last days of the year

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to prune; to trim; to cut back; to clip
• to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest
• to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "on" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 訓仮名【くんがな】・万葉仮名【まんようがな】

expression / ichidan verb:

• (for the taste of something) to become apparent
• (for someone's character) to come out

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sell out before the price falls (usu. shares); to sell at a profit

noun:

• valuing one's body and life; holding one's life dear - four character idiom

noun:

• being thin and bony; bony body - archaism
• bony old man; bony old woman - derogatory term - archaism

expression / adjective:

• to neither itch nor feel pain; to not be affected by something; to not feel the effects of something

noun:

• (exaggerated) professing to be; passing oneself off as

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to shoot or fire off an arrow

noun:

• itching to show off one's abilities

godan ~る verb:

• to pay off completely (e.g. loan)

noun / ~する noun:

• being reluctant to sell; holding off on selling

adjectival noun / noun:

• spare time; free time; leisure

noun:

• time (e.g. time it takes to do something) ［ひま・ヒマ］

adjectival noun / noun:

• time off; day off; vacation; holiday; leave
• quitting (one's job); firing someone; divorcing (one's spouse)

adjectival noun:

• (of one's time) free; (of one's business) slow ［ひま・ヒマ］

noun:

• leaving; departing ［いとま］ ➜ 御暇

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心