noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore)

noun:

• rokurokubi; long-neck woman; monstrous person (often a woman) with a neck that can expand and contract (in Japanese folklore) ➜ 轆轤首

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅

noun:

• Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman); feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a new shop
• opening a shop (for the day)

godan ~す verb:

• to ride (a horse) back; to drive (a car) back

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to play a leading role; to play a central part

noun:

• test for a position in a company; company entrance test

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to trim a tree; to prune a tree's branches - obscure term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to touch (a person's) heart; to impress (a person)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bust down a door; to break a door open

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a controlling presence; to have a certain aura

noun:

• trial decision; decision by a court; judgment from a trial

expression:

• where there is a will, there is a way - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have a perverse character; to have a twisted personality

expression / ~の noun:

• (not even) a little; (not even) a tiny bit ➜ ほんのわずか

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to close down a business; to shut a business

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to stifle a laugh; to hold back a laugh

~の noun:

• certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

noun:

• area between the regular outfield wall and a lower home-run fence set up at a shorter distance from home plate - Baseball term - From English "lucky zone"

noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

noun / suffix noun:

• just before; on the verge of; on the brink of
• just in front of; just ahead of