noun:

• mask squeeze; unequal pressure between the mask air space and the vascular pressure within the blood vessels of the face

noun:

• tax-free small-sum savings system (often used by the elderly and the disabled); non-tax plan for small savings

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle down; to get a steady job; to marry and raise a family
• to attire oneself; to outfit oneself

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to turn over (in one's sleep); to toss and turn (in bed)
• to change sides; to double-cross; to betray

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun / expression:

• visual novel; sound novel; interactive game resembling a mixed-media novel and featuring mostly static graphics

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom

noun:

• word for word; verbatim; a single word and a single phrase

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise

godan ~く verb:

• to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to read carefully (esp. a difficult text) ➜ 読解
• to decipher; to decode ➜ 解読

noun / ~する noun:

• tossing and turning in bed; turning over in bed worrying over something - four character idiom

noun:

• fish and chips

noun:

• Budget Committee (of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet)
• budget committee

noun:

• falling (down); tumbling (down); falling to the ground
• failure; failing
• renouncing Christianity and converting to Buddhism (during the Edo period); apostasy
• batter (construction technique)

noun:

• forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal - four character idiom

noun:

• Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945) ➜ 十五年戦争・太平洋戦争

noun:

• Protector General; Tang-period Chinese official in charge of the local Protectorate General ➜ 都護府
• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position) ➜ 按察使

noun:

• hourglass figure; having a good-looking, full-bodied figure (of a woman); big breasts and buttocks, tight waist - slang

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• worn-out; ragged; tattered; battered; scruffy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• crumbling; dry and crumbly - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• falling (in drops or clumps); scattering - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• (physically or mentally) worn-out; exhausted - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (coming to light) one after another - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom