noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• street performance by itinerant entertainers featuring a tumbling act in which a child performer wears a carved lion's head

noun:

• savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); Bosc's monitor ➜ サバンナモニター

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hit the bull's-eye
• to go as expected; to succeed (e.g. a plan)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to reverberate; to resound; to echo
• to have one's fame spread; to be renowned

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bud; to sprout; to germinate
• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 目が出る

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to give vent to (one's feeling); to hint (at something); to intimate; to suggest

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden); layout
• taking space (Go); obtaining land; gaining territory
• training done in one's own stable - Sumo term
• (police) legwork - abbreviation ➜ 地取り捜査

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to draw through one's hand; to stroke (e.g. a beard) ［しごく］
• to work someone hard ［しごく］

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to masturbate - usu. シゴく

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip)
• to reflect upon; to digest

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on one's back with legs outstretched; to recline
• to get cocky; to be arrogant

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun:

• (monetary) present to a person in distress; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium

noun:

• hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf; liverwort ➜ 三角草【みすみそう】・州浜草【すはまそう】
• bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa subsp. modesta); mealy primrose

noun:

• technique of throwing one's opponent by pushing his chest while holding his thigh; thigh-grabbing push down - Sumo term

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
• last-minute reversal

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• hyperconsciousness; too great a sense (of); something being only one's imagination; letting imagination run away with one - four character idiom

noun:

• inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches - four character idiom

expression:

• there is no love like a father's; no child knows how dear he is to his parents - proverb

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• fat-bodied, small-mouthed earthenware jar for carrying water
• water vessel used for a baby's first bath

noun:

• having one's baby nursed by another woman; wet-nursing; breast milk received from another woman