expression / conjunction:

• if it is the case that ...

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

noun:

• eel and cucumber salad, finely sliced, dressed in sake, soy, and vinegar - Food term

noun:

• on-the-spot investigation

noun:

• soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)

noun:

• room connecting the two main rooms of a building; intermediate room

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be the mother of someone's child

noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun:

• the three entertainment district enterprises: eating houses, geisha houses, meeting places for assignations, etc.

noun:

• thirteenth of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine) ➜ 拍手【はくしゅ】

expression:

• in this way; along these lines; similarly

expression:

• given the circumstances; such being the case

noun / suffix noun:

• fish pickled in rice-bran paste (esp. mackerel)

noun:

• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term
• the seven days of the week

noun:

• above the knee

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to praise to the skies; to extol ➜ 褒めちぎる【ほめちぎる】

noun:

• the same place; the same address; the said place

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:

• the other party

noun:

• the principle of honorable death and no surrender - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing - usu. aux. verb

noun:

• taking a story with a grain of salt; hearing only half the story

noun:

• Direct Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory - IT term

noun:

• literary term for the sun