noun:

• (looking) over the top of one's glasses
• (looking) through a pair of glasses

godan ~る verb:

• to walk about; to walk to and fro; to pace around

noun / ~する noun:

• lying down and getting up
• waking; getting up
• living (with); staying (with)

noun / ~する noun:

• separate areas for smokers and non-smokers
• separating smoking from non-smoking

noun:

• pork miso soup; miso soup with pork and vegetables

expression:

• time waits for no-one; time and tide stay for no man - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to talk on and on; to talk one's head off

expression / noun:

• something-something (e.g. platitudes, waffling); yada yada; so-and-so

adverb / ~する noun:

• bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather) - onomatopoeia
• nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• frankly; open-heartedly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system) ➜ 封戸

noun:

• host in a bar for male homosexuals; effeminate man who talks and dresses like a woman; young male homosexual - From English "gay boy"

~の noun:

• half made (e.g. clothes that are already cut and basted when purchased)

noun:

• car train; train carrying both passengers and vehicles

expression:

• Repeated reading (makes the meaning clear); Reading something again and again (will lead one to realize its meaning) - four character idiom

noun:

• person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well - four character idiom
• person who can drink much alcohol without becoming tipsy

noun:

• sexual position where the man lies flat on his back and the woman sits on top; cowgirl position - vulgar

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• the three main Shinto gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children ➜ 三柱の神

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run at full speed; to run and run
• to try one's hardest

noun:

• three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil") ➜ 見猿・言わ猿・聞か猿

expression:

• see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil; the three wise monkeys

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun:

• school of western-inspired Japanese drama which developed towards the end of the Meiji period; shingeki; new-drama (movement)

noun / adjectival noun:

• unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; nonuniformity; blotchiness
• unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; instability
• fickleness; capriciousness; fitfulness