noun:

• hearthfire; ingle; open fire in a fireplace

noun:

• projecting signboard; side signboard; signboard projecting from a building

noun:

• half watch ashore; port and starboard liberty; shore leave for half of a ship's crew at once

noun:

• senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knead; to mix; to complicate; to turn into a mess

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

noun:

• bait pitch; sucker pitch; pitch that lures a batter to swing - Baseball term

noun:

• Bachelor of Arts; BA; B.A.

noun:

• kan-on; Han reading; on reading of a kanji based on Tang dynasty Chinese ➜ 呉音【ごおん】・唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

expression / noun:

• in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw ➜ 目と鼻の先【めとはなのさき】

noun:

• first-time customer (of an inn or a restaurant); chance customer; customer without an introduction from a regular customer ➜ 一見の客・一見客

adjective:

• very tiresome; exhausting; being a damn nuisance - from 正直しんどい - slang

noun:

• kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string

noun / ~する noun:

• ex-officio questioning; police questioning (of a suspicious person); a police checkup - four character idiom

noun:

• projecting signboard; side signboard; signboard projecting from a building ➜ 袖看板

expression:

• anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to decorate; to prettify; to attach a decorative sticker, cover, bauble, etc. to a cell phone, notebook, slippers, etc.

expression / ~よい adjective:

• generous; soft-hearted; having a good personality

noun / ~する noun:

• wedding; bridal procession; marriage into a family

expression / noun:

• celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

expression:

• each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of