noun:

• trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
• last-minute reversal

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• hyperconsciousness; too great a sense (of); something being only one's imagination; letting imagination run away with one - four character idiom

noun:

• inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches - four character idiom

expression:

• there is no love like a father's; no child knows how dear he is to his parents - proverb

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• someone from outside one's own province (China) ➜ 本省人
• someone who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII ➜ 本省人

noun:

• thrice moving from house to house
• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning - abbreviation ➜ 三遷の教え

noun:

• winter daylight; winter sunlight - obscure term
• trying to make the most of each day; devoting oneself to one's parents - obscure term

noun:

• water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout - Sumo term
• fresh water used when making up one's face

expression:

• hindsight is 20-20 (even for a fool); an afterwit is everybody's wit - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• second helping; another cup; seconds ➜ 代わり【かわり】

interjection:

• command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand ➜ お手【おて】

noun / ~する noun:

• rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power; gathering strength

noun:

• material (for a story, article, etc.); information; news item - from たね, kana reversed ➜ 種【たね】
• joke; jest; pretending; made-up story
• proof; evidence
• (magician's) trick; secret
• ingredients

noun:

• used women's clothing such as bloomers and high-school sailor-suit uniforms (esp. as a source of sexual arousal) - from ブルマー and セーラー服 - slang

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~する noun:

• flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• heartily (eating); devouring; munching; gobbling - onomatopoeia

expression:

• even the patience of a saint eventually runs out; (if you touch) the Buddha's face three times (he will get annoyed) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• manufacturing; craftsmanship; making things by hand
• making New-Year's decorations
• preparing fields; farming; farmer

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

noun:

• exercise regime to convert breech presentation; trying to correct an unborn child's improper position so that the head comes out first

expression:

• actio libera in causa; manufacturing the conditions of one's own defence (e.g. getting drunk in order to commit a crime)

noun:

• golden spadefish (Platax boersii, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines); Boer's batfish

noun / ~の noun:

• fine crystal; clear glass

expression:

• mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds - abbreviation ➜ 浄玻璃の鏡

noun:

• facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill; match in which a yokozuna overpowers his opponent - Sumo term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to press; to push; to force
• to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)