noun:

• snow that falls on villages ➜ 山雪

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to satisfy the requirements

noun:

• scar on one's forehead; frontal wound

noun:

• on stage

noun:

• OFF-ON (marking on switches)

noun:

• explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Jan. 28, 1986); Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

noun:

• Council Hall in the Imperial Palace

expression:

• I wish I could sink through the floor

noun:

• movement to defend the Constitution

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

noun:

• the Epistles (of the New Testament)

noun:

• break (change for the worse) in the weather

noun:

• one-on-one fight; one-to-one fight - slang

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)

noun:

• kami of the three main Kumano shrines ➜ 熊野三社

noun:

• cloud flying through the sky

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

expression:

• from the best to the worst; from top to bottom; of every kind; all sorts

noun:

• rifling marks on a fired bullet

noun:

• the sound of waves

noun:

• on-the-spot or live broadcast; running commentary; blow-by-blow report; play-by-play report

expression / ichidan verb:

• to lower the curtain; to come to an end

noun:

• staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle (to prevent the three worms from reporting one's wrongdoings and shortening one's lifespan), while worshipping Sakra, the Blue-Faced Vajra, or Sarutahiko ➜ 三尸

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to do by the use of

expression / ichidan verb:

• to expose to the sun