noun / ~する noun:

• call; summons; paging; curtain call ➜ 呼び出す【よびだす】

noun:

• usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc. - Sumo term
• telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached - abbreviation ➜ 呼び出し電話
• box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse) - archaism ➜ 陸湯
• high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period) - archaism
• unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• going to war; departure for the front
• departure for military service (in response to a draft)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

noun:

• water system; river system; drainage system

noun:

• class system; caste system; hierarchical system

noun:

• acoustic system; auditory system; hearing system

noun:

• invalid diet; diet for the sick; diet for patients

noun:

• designated organized crime group; designated criminal organisation; designated boryokudan; designated yakuza group; group officially listed as criminal by the National Police Agency ➜ 暴力団

expression:

• when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked [literal]

expression:

• neither one thing nor the other; too short for a belt, too long for a sleeve tie [literal]

noun:

• night mooring (for a boat) ➜ 夜泊
• sleeping away for the night (esp. in a red light district)

noun / adverbial noun:

• utmost limits; to the finish; to the (bitter) end; to the hilt; down to the bedrock - four character idiom

expression:

• the clothes do not make the man; the cowl does not make the monk - proverb

expression:

• the busier you are, the better you work - proverb
• the more, the better - proverb

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• mythical carp with the head of a lion and the body of a fish (auspicious protectors of well-being)

noun:

• Izanami; female deity who gave birth to Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods ➜ 伊弉諾尊

noun:

• director of the Office of Court Ladies (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

expression:

• one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun:

• the eight precepts (in addition to the five precepts, prohibitions against: lying in a luxurious bed; self-decoration, song & dance; and eating after noon) - Buddhism term ➜ 五戒