noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

noun:

• master's degree

noun:

• the bottom of one's heart

noun:

• the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey ➜ 日銀短観【にちぎんたんかん】

noun:

• change in one's looks; change in one's appearance

expression:

• expression used to depict a woman who is attractive primarily when it's dark out, she's far away, or her face is partially hidden by a bamboo hat

noun:

• hair tied with red yak's tail hair ➜ 赤熊【しゃぐま】

noun:

• one's superior's anger - idiom ➜ 逆鱗に触れる
• imperial wrath - orig. meaning

noun:

• shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs) ➜ 貧乏ゆすり
• very slight movement - as 貧乏揺るぎもしない - archaism ➜ 貧乏揺るぎもしない

noun:

• story recounting one's personal experience

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

noun:

• overruling referee's decision of bout outcome - Sumo term

noun:

• one's own way of thinking; one's independent approach - male language

noun / ~する noun:

• biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• thanking another driver by flashing one's hazard lights - colloquialism - From English "thank you hazard"

noun:

• turning a concealed pung into an open kong by calling another player's discard - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun:

• traveler's guardian deity (traveller)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to satisfy one's appetite

expression / noun:

• one's own child; one's own children

noun:

• Smith's red-backed vole (Eothenomys smithii); Smith's vole

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to polish one's skills

noun:

• one's regular inn or hotel

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to ruin one's reputation in later life; to tarnish one's twilight years

noun:

• fidelity to one's principles