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

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

~と adverb:

• exactly; nicely; to a tee - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to be fitting

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum

noun:

• prefecture-by-prefecture map; atlas of Japan divided by prefecture; map of a single prefecture

godan ~す verb / transitive:

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

noun:

• three-game match; three-bout contest; a rubber (in a card game) - four character idiom

expression:

• people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; a fortune teller can't tell their own future [literal] - proverb

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to deem acceptable; to approve of; to value; to consider a good thing

expression / ichidan verb:

• to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak