expression:

• even the strong-willed fall into temptation - proverb
• there's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it - proverb

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

noun:

• scent of a flower floating about in the air; lingering scent of a flower in the darkness

noun:

• rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July)
• rain during the rainy season

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open
• opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access

expression:

• at every opportunity; whenever possible; whenever the occasion arises; from time to time; occasionally

noun:

• shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine

noun:

• change of attitude (stance, position)
• lightness of foot; ability to dodge out of the way of an attack - Sumo term

expression:

• those who meet must part (suggesting the transient nature of this life); we meet only to part - four character idiom

noun:

• giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom

noun:

• whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle ➜ 鏑矢
• start (e.g. of a movement); beginning; dawn

noun:

• nine-tailed kitsune (fox spirit, kitsune are said to be more powerful the more tails they have) ➜ 天狐

noun:

• rusty monitor (Varanus semiremex, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the east coast of Queensland, Australia)

noun:

• Panama spadefish (Parapsettus panamensis, species of Eastern Pacific spadefish found from the Gulf of California to Peru)

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• combover; comb-over; bamboo screen head (due to looking like the slats of a bamboo screen) [literal] ➜ すだれ・バーコードヘア

expression / adjective:

• spending a day's revenue within the day; not being attached to money (like a true Tokyoite)

noun:

• men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryo system) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to accept an offer; to be charmed by someone's kind words and do as he wishes

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run) - idiom

noun:

• good and bad fortune, and weal and woe - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• propriety; right and wrong; advisability; possibility
• pro and con; ayes and noes

noun:

• sun and moon
• time; days and months; years
• Sunday and Monday ［にちげつ］

noun:

• wisdom and magnanimity; witty intelligence and large-mindedness
• measurement; volume and weight