noun:

• lady's companion (paid female companion of a wealthy or high-ranking woman, esp. in Victorian England) - archaism

noun:

• humorous mask of a homely woman's face (characterized by a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

noun:

• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

expression:

• even the strong-willed fall into temptation - proverb
• there's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• past days; bygone days; days of yore; the olden days

~の noun / noun:

• while still alive; during one's lifetime

noun:

• mother's body (esp. when pregnant or after giving birth)
• parent body; parent organization; base; basis; nucleus

noun / ~する noun:

• racing (an engine); idling (an engine) ➜ 空回り
• going in circles (esp. argument, discussion, etc.); spinning one's wheels

expression:

• there is no way that ... (expresses speaker's belief that something is impossible)
• easy; simple

noun:

• resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw (the winning ticket)
• to apply; to compare; to put (oneself in someone's position) ➜ 当てはめる

noun:

• corsage; small bouquet worn by a woman - From French
• bodice of a woman's dress - archaism

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era)

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind ➜ ど忘れ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be stunned; to be surprised; one's eyes turn into dots (like a cartoon character) [literal]

noun / expression:

• trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

noun / ~の noun:

• having a child (usu. from a former relationship); accompanied by one's child

noun / ~する noun:

• one's own account (of something); account one got (heard) from somebody at first hand

noun:

• ozeki wrestler's attempt to reach the rank of yokozuna; being eligible for promotion to yokozuna - Sumo term ➜ 横綱【よこづな】・大関【おおぜき】

godan ~す verb:

• to fly into a rage; to lose one's temper; to flare up; to break out

expression:

• being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat - four character idiom

noun:

• grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• high knee (exercise drill where one brings one's knees up high while walking or running)