expression:

• just off the press

noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

expression:

• make hay while the sun shines - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term

noun:

• beginning of the year

expression:

• leaving the remaining corrections up to the printer after having finished proofreading; OK with corrections - abbreviation

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb

noun:

• festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to speak with an accent; to be corrupted (of word); to mispronounce

noun:

• fruit of a cactus in genus Opuntia (incl. prickly pears and cholla); cactus pear

noun:

• round that ends with nobody winning - Mahjong term

noun:

• night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar

noun:

• lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) ➜ 鈴蘭

noun:

• omission in a bill

noun:

• accessory before the fact

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it); being stone-deaf to someone's appeals - four character idiom

noun:

• governments of various nations of the world

noun:

• factory worker with a fixed term contract of employment

noun:

• var. of Japanese paper made from the Oriental paper bush

noun / ~する noun:

• slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic) - slang
• banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour) - colloquialism

ichidan verb:

• to bury something in the ground
• to cover coals with ash; to bank a fire

noun:

• person who is satisfied with his or her real (offline) life - from リアル+充実 - slang ➜ リアル・充実

noun:

• the present (esp. as a privileged moment in eternity) - archaism

noun:

• common house mosquito (Culex pipiens); northern house mosquito

expression:

• with one's own hands