noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

adjective:

• hot; warm; sultry; heated Antonym: 寒い
• passionate; impassioned; burning (desire, etc.)
• on everybody's mind; on the radar; du jour; interested (gaze, etc.)

noun:

• cut end; edge (of a page, etc.)
• small amount; small sum Antonym: 大口【おおぐち】
• beginning; clue
• tiger's den; jaws of death; dangerous place ➜ 虎口

adverb / expression:

• using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately

noun:

• state (of mind); mental state; emotional condition
• field (of activity)
• one's lot; circumstance; situation in life
• place; region; area; land - orig. meaning

noun:

• swallowing in one gulp; downing; mouthful; bite
• sipping; sip
• thinking nothing of one's opponent; making easy prey of someone

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb:

• looking up to a person as one's own master or model; being influenced by a person through his works; idolizing

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

noun:

• itai-itai disease; mass cadmium poisoning in Toyama Prefecture starting in the 1910's caused by industrial waste ➜ 痛い

noun:

• one's business - archaism - polite language
• reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha
• bargain; discount
• money paid to a prostitute or geisha

conjunction:

• that being the case; therefore; so
• well then, moving on to another topic...
• (expressing surprise) ...on earth? ［されば］

interjection:

• that's right ［されば］

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• finger Braille; system of communicating with the deaf-blind in which the receiver's fingers are tapped like a Braille typewriter ➜ 点字【てんじ】

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

expression:

• I quit!; I'm out!; declaring one quits, mainly used in children's games - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun / counter:

• nth person to quit a game - children's language - Ōsaka dialect

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• lifting one's buttocks (e.g. through exercise); getting a perkier bum; getting rid of sagging buttocks - From English "hip up"

expression:

• one cannot escape from one's worldly desires; the hounds of earthly desires would return each time they are driven away [literal] - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to freeze; to congeal
• to concentrate one's attention on; to devote oneself to something; to ponder; to meditate

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to correct; to rectify; to reform; to amend; to redress
• to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust ➜ 襟を正す