noun:

• one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters

noun:

• tell-all book; revealing book; kiss-and-tell book; scandalous book

noun:

• area between the regular outfield wall and a lower home-run fence set up at a shorter distance from home plate - Baseball term - From English "lucky zone"

noun / ~する noun:

• describing; comparing; expressing figuratively; modifying; qualifying (e.g. an adjective qualifying a noun)

noun:

• form; figure; condition; state
• personal appearance; one's face and figure; looks

noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun:

• ash glaze (type of fundamental glaze used in ancient times made from the ashes of raw materials such as unhulled rice, straw, oak and pine)

noun:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case
• to scold; to take (a person) to task

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hide; to conceal
• to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard
• to become quiet and inconspicuous

expression / noun:

• the harmonizing, mentally and physically, of two parties engaged in an activity; singing from the same hymn-sheet; dancing to the same beat - idiom

noun:

• repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; straight
• dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep - orig. meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• sunken kotatsu; low table over a hole in the floor (may have a heat source underneath and a hanging quilt to retain warmth) ➜ 炬燵

noun:

• Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
• Rape of Nanking (1937); Nanking Massacre ➜ 南京大虐殺

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

noun:

• pilaf topped with bechemal or other cheese-based sauce, then oven baked - named after the Doria family of Genoa - From Italian "Doria"
• casserole dish dedicated to the Doria family, often with green, white and red colours

noun:

• mixed vegetable and seafood tempura ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・掻揚げ・掻揚］
• something pulled upwards
• small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat ［かき揚げ・掻き揚げ・搔き揚げ］ - abbreviation ➜ かき揚げ城【かきあげじろ】
• turning up a lamp wick

~する noun:

• to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; to worry - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that; (obsessing) to no end - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages ［はい］

suffix / counter:

• counter for cupfuls
• counter for ships, octopuses and squid ［はい］

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記