noun:

• legal competency; criminal responsibility; ability to fulfil one's responsibilities; full accountability

noun:

• traditional Japanese calendar with pictures; traditional Japanese calendar expressed with pictures for use by illiterates ➜ 盲暦

noun:

• naked bud (of a plant); bud unprotected by bud scales

noun:

• windcrust; crust formed on snow by strong wind

noun:

• private house; one's own house

noun:

• man who drives a woman around for free; man used by a woman for his car - slang

godan ~く verb:

• to be underwater from the neck down; to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water - archaism
• to force something under the surface of the water

noun:

• artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

noun:

• ABCD line; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940

expression:

• from right to left; in one ear and out the other
• nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado

noun:

• being kept standing (without doing anything); remaining on one's feet
• beggar; tramp
• prostitute; streetwalker
• tout (for a hostess bar)
• street drug pusher
• day laborer standing and waiting for a job.

noun / ~する noun:

• employment of workers through (personal) connections; getting a job through one's personal connection - four character idiom

noun:

• destination; place where one is visiting

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bow; to bow one's head
• to apologize; to apologise
• to bow to; to yield to; to admire

expression / adjective:

• not mince matters; not mince one's words

adverb:

• at the mercy of (e.g. wind, waves); (act) as one is told (by) - in form 〜のまにまに ➜ ままに

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) ➜ 文展【ぶんてん】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be bad for health; to affect one's health

noun:

• surrounding seas; surrounded by the sea

noun:

• iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards ➜ 居合い
• iai sword-drawing performance (used during the Edo period to sell medicine and other wares)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• self-publishing; publishing at one's own expense

noun / ~する noun:

• solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause - four character idiom

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

noun:

• drastic improvement of appearance via makeup; suddenly looking better by using makeup