noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun:

• pomato; cross of a tomato and a potato

noun:

• having one's workplace at home; living and working at the same location (independent farmers, home workers, storekeepers, etc.) - four character idiom

adverb / ~の noun:

• repeatedly; over and over again

adverb:

• fully (e.g. understand); very much; very well; exceedingly

noun:

• civet; stew of a game animal, red wine and various alliums (often thickened with the animal's blood) - Food term - From French

noun:

• arm-barring force out; locking arms around an opponent and pushing him out of the ring - Sumo term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dispatch; to make run
• to drive; to gallop; to sail
• to run (a program)
• to rout; to put to flight

noun:

• final election; run-off

noun:

• Parascylliidae; family of collared carpet sharks containing eight species and two genera

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun:

• not getting along well with each other; being like water and oil - four character idiom

noun:

• elaborated cloth; figured silk and thin silk

noun:

• recoilless rifle; recoilless gun

noun:

• Panthalassa; vast global ocean during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic periods

noun:

• stir-frying then boiling in liquid sauce; food that has been stir-fried and boiled in liquid sauce - Ryūkyū dialect ➜ 炒め煮

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• backslapping; a smile and a tap on the shoulder [literal]
• backslapper; someone who smiles and gives you a slap on the shoulder; someone who wins people over

expression:

• beauties die young; beauty and luck seldom go together - four character idiom

noun:

• estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage

noun:

• roadside land prices; price of land adjoining a major road, used to calculate inheritance and gift taxes

expression:

• to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture - proverb

noun:

• oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
• sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• putting aside rank; free and easy (party)

expression:

• in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to turn over (in one's sleep); to toss and turn (in bed)
• to change sides; to double-cross; to betray