expression:

• it's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn

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:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

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:

• tangible side of things (such as equipment and facilities; as opposed to the abstract side) ➜ ソフト面

noun:

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

noun / ~する noun:

• emperor's reply; reply to the emperor

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to redeem; to take out of pawn
• to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer) ➜ 身請け

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to warm oneself; to sun oneself; to warm up; to get warm

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself

expression / adjective:

• to gain nothing; to be of no benefit; to be no use; to be unprofitable

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest
• to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished