noun:

• cloudy sky that appears when the migrating birds that stayed for winter and autumn in Japan leave to go north

noun:

• way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]

noun:

• Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus niloticus) (larger member of the family Cichlidae, important to aquaculture since ancient Egypt)

noun:

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

expression:

• even the strong-willed fall into temptation - proverb
• there's nothing you can't do if you set your mind to it - proverb

noun:

• shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be precocious; to be mature for one's age; to seem grown-up; to seem mature

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