noun:

• Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武

noun:

• Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day

expression:

• when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham's Law) - proverb ➜ グレシャムの法則

ichidan verb:

• to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest while the paddies are still covered with snow - four character idiom

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun / ~する noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist) - slang

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb

noun:

• battling to knock away the hands of one's opponent, in order to achieve an advantageous position - Sumo term

expression:

• talk is cheap; it's easier to say than to do; building Osaka Castle by talking [literal] - proverb

noun:

• skewering one's food with a chopstick in order to pick it up (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• darner (any dragonfly of family Aeshnidae); devil's darning needle
• dragonfly (esp. a large one)

godan ~む verb:

• to carry on one's back
• to burden oneself (e.g. with debts, responsibilities, etc.)

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】

noun:

• pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate - colloquialism

noun:

• Okinawa (prefecture); region comprising most of Japan's southwestern archipelago (esp. Okinawa Island) ➜ 琉球
• Okinawa (city)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree

noun:

• (being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal - four character idiom

noun:

• dry cough; hacking cough
• intentional cough (i.e. to get someone's attention) - esp. 空咳

godan ~る verb:

• to cut by rubbing; to wear out; to spend all (one's money)