suffix noun:

• looking like a ...; acting as if a ...

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

expression:

• it is so; it is as such - archaism

noun:

• pretending to be more experienced than one actually is; acting as though one is knowledgeable about something - from エアプレイ(ヤー) - slang

expression:

• that in itself; as such

noun:

• writers and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• running at full speed; going as fast as one can go ➜ 一目散に

adverb:

• with the best of them; as the next fellow

adverbial noun:

• upon arrival of an item (items); as soon as one arrives - four character idiom

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

expression:

• to (an extent); up to; so far as; even - more emphatic than まで ➜ 迄【まで】
• doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ... - usu. as 〜までもない
• even if ... - usu. as 〜ないまでも

suffix:

• in proportion to; just as much as

expression:

• ignoring; acting as if it is nothing ➜ 物ともせず

noun:

• patron god; ancestor deified as a kami - Kyūshū dialect - Shintō term

noun:

• seirogan; beechwood extract popular as a herbal treatment for diarrhoea (diarrhea), etc.

noun:

• poets and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting, and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hit the bull's-eye; to go as expected

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to love one's child too much for their own good; to love one's daughter so much as to make her a nun [literal] - obscure term

expression / noun:

• perfectly white skin (woman); skin as white as snow ➜ 雪肌【ゆきはだ】

noun:

• in my case; as for me

noun:

• miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke ➜ 片山貝

pre-noun adjectival:

• the usual; as it always is
• said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.)

adverb:

• in the usual way - archaism

noun:

• Maria Kannon; statue of the Virgin Mary disguised as a Buddhist Kannon statue, used by hidden Christians during the Edo period ➜ マリア・観音

noun:

• handing over in its present state; selling as-is, without warranty (esp. second-hand goods)