noun:

• on the attack; on the offensive

noun:

• sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival

noun / ~する noun:

• considering the pros and cons of; examining arguments for and against

noun:

• reading Chinese in the Japanese order

noun:

• practical search for the truth - four character idiom ➜ 実事

expression / noun:

• just out of the bath

noun:

• transit (of a planet) over the sun

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】

noun:

• air intake

noun:

• the vernal equinox (the equinoctal point)

noun:

• divination based on laying out various items before a toddler and predicting his future based the items chosen

noun:

• the same rights; equal rights

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun / ~の noun:

• the present (day or age)

noun:

• ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and carapaces - four character idiom ➜ 亀甲獣骨文字

expression:

• better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; better the ogre you know than the Buddha you don't [literal] - proverb

noun:

• the salt industry

noun:

• (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People ➜ 三民主義

noun:

• Surface Air Lifted (postal service); SAL

noun:

• implements used to enhance the effect of a play (e.g. props, costumes, etc.)

noun:

• fashion style heavy on make-up and elaborate hairstyles, used among Japanese rock bands, musicians, etc.

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth - four character idiom

noun:

• stone weights on pickle-tub covers

noun:

• pickle on a stick (usually a cucumber)

noun:

• air hammer