noun:

• picking up a bowl with one's right hand which is already holding one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette) - obscure term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be sharp; to be keen; to be on the ball; to have a mind like a steel trap; to be clever - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to begin to like something (one did not initially like); to gradually become enamoured with something; to have something grow on you - slang - abbreviation ➜ じわじわ・じわじわ来る

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to begin to like something (one did not initially like); to gradually become enamoured with something; to have something grow on you - colloquialism ➜ じわじわ

expression / adjectival noun / noun:

• out-of-place; inappropriate; sticking out like a sore thumb

noun:

• aluminium can shaped like a bottle (aluminum); metal bottle

noun:

• stretching out a string; stretching out like a string
• silk reeling; silk spinning; filature; silk reeler; silk spinner ➜ 糸取り
• pulling someone's strings
• appearance of strings from a Buddha's fingertips when being prayed to (folk belief)
• menstruation - euphemism

noun:

• Buddhist priest who is a government minister

noun:

• stock (from which a graft is taken)

noun:

• house in which a mistress is kept

expression:

• "There is a huge markup in medicines." - four character idiom

noun:

• king who is a father

godan ~る verb:

• to be born again; to make a fresh start in life

noun:

• woman with a turbulent love life; woman always having man trouble

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

auxiliary:

• word used at sentence-end (like a particle) to indicate speculation, volition or invitation - archaism - Kantō, Tōhoku dialect
• should; must ➜ 可き

expression:

• in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se

noun:

• children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base
• taking a place; securing a position

noun / ~する noun:

• begging for one's life; pleading for one's life

noun:

• sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give one's life; to lay down one's life

noun:

• one's world view; one's view of life; essay on life

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners ➜ への字に結んだ口