expression:

• the Alpha and the Omega - idiom

noun:

• share in inheritance; inheritance share; portion of inheritance

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

noun:

• festival held in July in Fukuoka City; Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival (often just called Yamakasa Festival)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to check (in chess)
• to threaten (somebody's position, etc.); to close in (on somebody) - idiom

noun:

• Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan; wasei eigo

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat untidily
• to eat a bit of everything
• to dabble (in something); to try one's hand at various things

expression / noun:

• five-day workweek system; five-day school-week - sometimes 完全週休２日制
• having two days off in at least one week of a month

noun:

• yo-yo fishing [literal]; Japanese festival game of fishing balloons (with loops attached), floating in water, out with a hook

noun:

• karayuki-san; young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa) ➜ 唐行き【からゆき】

noun:

• (short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house
• reputation (of a store); good name; credit
• goodwill - Business term

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to be in common; to have in common
• to be in mutually understood
• to be mutually connected; to have a link

ichidan verb:

• to carry in one's own hands; to carry in a manner that is obvious to others - colloquialism ➜ 提げる【さげる】

noun:

• formality; social rules
• social status; social standing
• amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo) - usu. きゃくしき - archaism ➜ 律令

noun / ~する noun:

• the 'be-be-be' sound of a detector going off
• clicking with someone; being compatible

noun:

• shopfront; storefront; shopwindow; (near the) shop entrance

~の noun:

• over-the-counter - Finance term

noun / ~の noun:

• the teens (10-19); teenage ➜ 代・台

noun:

• the tenth generation ［十代・１０代］

noun:

• (musical) time; tempo; beat; rhythm
• the moment; the instance; chance - esp. 〜した拍子に

noun:

• leaving the nest
• going out into the world; becoming independent

noun:

• imperial palace
• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress - abbreviation ➜ 内裏雛

noun:

• all living things; mankind; the people; the world - Buddhism term

expression:

• without the least difference; exactly; perfectly; to the inch

noun:

• Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian [literal] - used from the Muromachi to the Edo period - archaism ➜ 紅毛人

noun:

• adoption or rejection; choice; separating the needed from the unneeded