noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

expression:

• avoiding unnecessary talk can prevent disaster falling on one; there is safety in silence; the pheasant would not be shot but for its cries [literal] - proverb

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun / ~の noun:

• grandfather
• old man ［おおじ］ ➜ 爺
• kyogen mask used for the role of an old man ［おおじ］

noun / suffix noun:

• earth; ground; land; soil
• place
• territory
• bottom (of a package, book, etc.) ➜ 天地無用
• earth (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大・土【ど】

noun:

• fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light
• person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

noun:

• Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures
• Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

expression / adverb:

• perhaps; possibly; maybe; by any chance; if I'm not mistaken
• if; in case; in the event that

noun / ~の noun:

• head; chief

noun:

• chairman; governor; president ［主席］
• top student; head of the class ［首席］
• top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• which can exist solely due to the presence of; whose existence is determined entirely by; which owes everything to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• stylish; smart; fashionable
• high collar ➜ ハイカラー
• hair dressed in a western style

~する noun:

• to dress in the latest Western fashion

noun / ~する noun:

• pardon; extenuation; excuse ［かしゃく］
• borrowing ［かしゃく］

noun:

• borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word

noun / ~する noun:

• making a country prosperous; prosperous country
• Kōkoku era (of the Southern Court) (1340.4.28-1346.12.8)

noun:

• strut; short vertical post
• thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.)
• handbreadth; bundle - archaism ➜ 束【そく】

noun:

• man of this world; the real world; temporal things
• cast-off cicada shell; cicada ［空蝉・虚蝉］

noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles

noun:

• blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work; the May blues

noun:

• shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine - honorific language - Shintō term ➜ 神体

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
• last-minute reversal