noun:

• game in which people sit in a circle taking turns to imitate the previous person's humorous facial expression or gesture

noun:

• official notice
• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ［お触れ・御触れ］ - abbreviation ➜ お触書

noun:

• publicly predicting the future developments of a creative work (making it difficult for the creator to use those ideas) - slang ➜ ねた

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

noun / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• second in command
• fourth athlete to compete in a 5-on-5 team competition (kendo, judo, etc.) ➜ 先鋒【せんぽう】

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - 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:

• adding something to or altering a finished work of art; something added or altered in this manner

noun:

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

noun:

• Miyako toad (Bufo gargarizans miyakonis, a subspecies of the Asiatic toad endemic to the Ryukyu Islands)

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

noun:

• closest pine-tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

• middle pine tree to a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

noun:

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

noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

expression:

• A single seed can eventually produce a great harvest; Even the smallest beginning can generate a greatest profit; Watch the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves - four character idiom

noun:

• design right; right(s) to a design

noun:

• heart attack

~する noun:

• to have a heart attack

noun / ~する noun:

• transfer to a different hospital; hospital transfer

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to pass by one another
• to miss meeting each other; to miss each other
• to disagree

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be crowded (with); to be packed ➜ 建て込む
• to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation ➜ 辻褄を合わせる