noun:

• netsuke; miniature buttonlike carving used to hang personal items from a (man's) kimono sash

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

noun:

• convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness
• bug thought to cause children's diseases

noun:

• dragon's den
• auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)

noun:

• men's things; menswear; men's wear

~の noun:

• men's; for men

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
• to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
• to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
• to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
• to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
• to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

noun:

• article for sale; goods for sale; offering; For Sale (on a sign)
• specialty; selling point

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the battle line; come back to the game (on to the field); a comeback - four character idiom

expression / adverb:

• well; properly; suitably
• best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of; please do
• just like ...; as though one were ... - as ...よろしく
• by all means; of course - as よろしく…べし

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

expression:

• there it is; there it comes; got it; of course; it figures; I knew it; expression one says when what is expected comes

expression:

• there it is; there it comes; got it; of course; it figures; I knew it; expression one says when what is expected comes - colloquialism ➜ それ来た

adverb / ~と adverb:

• walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel) - onomatopoeia
• lots of coins or jewels - onomatopoeia
• cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• skin
• condom - colloquialism
• skin (e.g. alternative look and feel for interface of a program) - IT term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sit in a row; to be present (and lined up)

noun:

• sweet adzuki bean paste made of a mixture of mashed and whole beans

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger ➜ 双鉤法

expression:

• in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

noun:

• samurai and commoners
• normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing)

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

noun:

• anticipating the escape of the king and blocking him in advance with a knight - Shōgi term

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a broadly concave tile and near-rectangular decorative cap) ➜ 平瓦・瓦当

noun:

• scaffolding and temporary roof placed around a shrine, temple, etc. undergoing repair; protective scaffolding

noun:

• note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale - Music term ➜ 徴【ち】