noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh ➜ 結跏趺坐【けっかふざ】

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

noun:

• exhaled air; one's breath

noun:

• unpopular woman; woman who isn't well-liked by men - slang ➜ 喪男【もおとこ】

godan ~す verb:

• to rally; to regain one's strength

noun:

• new type depression; depression where one is depressed only when at work

noun:

• stone sauna; facility where one rests on towels laid on a slab of heated natural rock

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to feign composure; to act like one has (time, money, strength, etc.) to spare - colloquialism

noun:

• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 国士無双

noun:

• stroll garden with a central pond; large garden best enjoyed by walking around it ➜ 座観式庭園・池泉回遊式

noun:

• filter bubble; intellectual isolation caused by personalized search technologies

noun / adjectival noun:

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

noun:

• age fifty; one's fifties

expression:

• having exhausted every available means; having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows [literal]

expression / noun:

• final emergency measure; final defence when one is cornered (defense) - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• whereabouts; country; one's home village; one's residence

expression:

• we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; people ignoring one's invitation or effort to do something together - from Matthew 11:17 - idiom

noun:

• (at a) snail's pace; inch by (painful) inch - often adverbially as ～に... - idiom

noun:

• son and heir; son who will succeed one

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

adverb / ~と adverb:

• rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• this and that; one thing or another

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

noun:

• partner; someone who shares one's load

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go crazy; to go off one's head