noun:

• standee (in a theatre); standing-room spectator; the gallery

noun:

• place where the sacred palanquin is lodged during a festival ➜ 御旅所

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let cooked rice steam after turning off the heat

noun:

• Magadaava (where Buddha delivered his first sermon); The Deer Park

noun:

• young people who sit on the ground or sidewalk (footpath)

noun:

• lacking the words to say what one means

noun:

• on the air lamp

noun:

• (announcement over) the public address system (e.g. in stadium)

noun:

• (season's) record holder in (for) the most strike-outs

noun:

• store holding a special commendation (e.g. from the mayor)

adverb:

• root and branch; thoroughly; by the roots; completely; all

noun:

• Aesop's Fables (published initially by the Jesuits in 1593)

noun:

• air or vapour in the soil (vapor)
• electrical earth; ground

expression / noun:

• playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating - Sumo term

noun:

• sacred items buried in the ring during its ritual purification - Sumo term

noun:

• late Edo-period pejorative for the Dutch; red-haired barbarian [literal]

expression:

• people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood - four character idiom

expression:

• beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young - four character idiom

noun:

• addiction to the printed word; reading addict; book (print) junkie - four character idiom

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• feeling a little drunk with the New Year's sake - four character idiom

noun:

• lintel (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door) - Architecture term ➜ 蹴放し

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"