noun:

• woman with a wonderful personality - four character idiom

noun:

• something well-known throughout the world

expression:

• the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long; the well with sweet water will be the first to run dry [literal] - proverb

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮

noun:

• fiftieth day after the birth of a child
• fifty days

noun / ~する noun:

• the passage of electric current

noun:

• helmet with white hair coming out of the top to make one look like an old person ➜ 老冠
• kanji "old" radical at top

noun:

• obfuscated style of Japanese text, used particularly by young women in keitai emails

noun:

• year of the snake

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain

noun:

• votive tablet depicting a math puzzle given in devotion to a shrine or temple by a wasan mathematician ➜ 和算【わさん】

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• a cut above the rest; superior; respectable; full-fledged; something uncommon
• one field; one matter

adverb:

• suitably; reasonably

noun:

• children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it ➜ 根っ木

noun:

• final effort before the end - From English "last heavy"

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to participate in (as a member); to get involved in - idiom

expression:

• in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of ➜ に照らすと

noun / ~の noun:

• in operation (of a machine, especially security cameras); in use; in action

noun:

• the way back

noun / ~の noun:

• appealing to the public; popular

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

noun:

• fiber to the home; FTTH - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving at the convenience of the company ➜ 自己都合退職

noun:

• the Holy Family

noun:

• first cargo of the year