noun:

• the chosen one; the chosen ones; the select few

noun:

• staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen buddhism); itinerant priest's lodging - Buddhism term
• providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time - Buddhism term

noun:

• group that goes ahead of the main body

suffix:

• Sirs; Mesdames - pluralizing suffix - honorific language
• around (the time that, etc.); about - also かた

noun:

• country that was the victim of nuclear bombing

expression:

• therefore; for that reason; such being the case

noun:

• hole in the curtains to allow someone backstage to see the audience (in kabuki theatre) - obscure term
• public observation; feel of being watched; casual observers - obscure term ➜ 人目

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

noun:

• one tenth; one hundredth; one percent; one tenth of a sun; one quarter ryou (an old coin)

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

noun:

• one's usual practice; one's old trick; one's usual modus operandi; the same old tactic - four character idiom

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

noun:

• racketeering newspaper; journal that demands money in return for favourable articles

noun:

• writings on many different topics ➜ 雑書
• book that cannot be classified in any category

noun:

• Gartner's bacillus; form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans

expression / noun:

• one's devoted wife; wife who has followed one through hard times; wife married in poverty

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

noun:

• spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures - four character idiom

noun:

• SuperBall scooping; festival game in which one scoops up rubber bouncy balls floating in water ➜ 金魚掬い

noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

noun:

• kerchief worn by women in former times in Japan in cold weather, covering the whole head (except eyes)

noun:

• fire in the neighborhood; fire in the neighbourhood

noun:

• breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation - four character idiom

noun:

• belief in the next world; belief in the hereafter - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be experienced in the ways of the world; to taste the bitter and the sweet