expression / noun:

• Children's Limbo - Buddhism term

expression / ~の noun:

• futile; unrewarding

noun:

• Foucault's pendulum

adjectival noun / noun:

• discerning (quick) eye; keen insight

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to lose one's temper; to throw a tantrum

godan ~む verb:

• to enter someone's territory by force

noun:

• carpenter's square - obscure term ➜ 曲尺

expression:

• feast for one's eyes; sight as pleasing as the New Year

noun:

• getting a lump in one's throat; overflowing with feelings ➜ 胸がいっぱいになる

~の noun:

• chest full of; lungs full of

noun:

• way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]

noun:

• Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)

noun:

• a crowd or large number of one's retainers or subjects

noun:

• dying for one's country

noun / ~の noun:

• around one's lips

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish one's work

noun:

• plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put away one's bedding
• to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed)

expression:

• It's good to have a girl first and then a boy

noun:

• one's principal residence

noun:

• children's clothing

noun:

• classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle - obscure term

noun:

• groove in a shamisen player's fingernail caused by the friction of the string of the instrument ➜ 糸道【いとみち】

noun:

• (being unable to control) one's worldly desires and passions - four character idiom

noun:

• days of one's menstrual period - from blue meaning melancholy or depressed - From English "blue day"

noun:

• wait for the middle tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term

noun:

• acting according to one's own beliefs, being undisturbed by others - four character idiom