busiest and most profitable business period; peak season
perverseness; perversity; perverse person; difficult person; contrary person
checked up; inspection completed
fishy; dubious; questionable; false-looking
to become exaggerated (of rumours, etc.); to become embellished
second in rank; second sign of the Chinese calendar
sitting posture with the legs bent back on each side; Japanese traditional informal female sitting posture; w-sitting; reverse tailor style sitting
to establish one's innocence; to prove oneself right; to prove one's identity
all pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain
Yōwa era (1181.7.14-1182.5.27)
flavor of literary style; flavour of literary style
five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1868-1946)
completeness; perfection; consummation
facing the east; east face; east side; the east
wood louse; wood lice; slater
pleonasm; redundancy; tautology; kanji compound in which the same character is repeated
A, B, C and D; first, second, third and fourth
without considering the consequences; recklessly; imprudently; going overboard
horned; horn-shaped; hornlike; corneous; corniculate
cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do
to be steamed (properly, e.g. rice); to be stuffy; to grow musty; to get close
opposite the front; front seats in a theater; stalls; (seat facing) south side of ring
to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee
to pull wires; to pull strings
leading force; driving force; leader
to burst into bud; to sprout; to have a crush; to be infatuated
astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment
king and princes; noble rank
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do; (lit.) cannot go