noun:

• Islamic holy books (the Pentateuch, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran)

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life)

noun:

• superstitious person ➜ 縁起を担ぐ
• practical joker
• peddler; itinerant salesman; blackmarket peddler (after WW2)

noun:

• capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act

expression / conjunction:

• no wonder; little wonder; after all; as expected; which isn't surprising

noun:

• the whole country; the public; the world; the ruling power; having one's own way

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom

expression:

• waking or sleeping; constantly; at all times; twenty-four hours a day

noun:

• Satsuma (ancient province located in present-day Kagoshima prefecture)
• sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) - abbreviation ➜ 薩摩芋【さつまいも】

noun:

• Japan
• Yamato; ancient province corresponding to modern-day Nara Prefecture ［おおやまと］ ➜ 大和

noun:

• ruffian; scamp; hooligan
• out-of-work person; day laborer without a job ➜ 溢れ【あぶれ】

noun:

• the whole country; the public; the world; the ruling power; having one's own way

noun:

• the people; the masses; the public; the great unwashed

noun / suffix / ~の noun:

• discount; reduction; rebate; (after a number) tenths discounted; tenths reduced

noun:

• route; course; path
• one's future course (e.g. after graduating high school)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to visit one place after another without plan or effect; to gallivant about

noun:

• chips or shavings left after cutting wood or metal with a saw, etc.

noun:

• winning hand formed by drawing a replacement tile after declaring a kong - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 嶺上牌

noun:

• returning of a package to depot after a failed delivery attempt

noun:

• simmering after steaming - Food term
• simmering (in a small amount of broth); smothering; estouffade - Food term

noun:

• April Theses; series of directives issued by Lenin after his return from exile

noun:

• round of ghost stories (trad. at night with a lamp or candle being extinguished after each story)

noun:

• warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed) - abbreviation - Food term ➜ 熱盛り蕎麦

noun:

• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)