noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

noun / ~する noun:

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

~の noun / adverb:

• by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; at heart
• absolutely (not); (not) at all - followed by a verb in negative form

adverb:

• still some way to go before the goal; still more to come; much more; not yet

noun:

• political operations; (Heian Period) political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court; (Edo Period) civil suit

noun / ~する noun:

• tub bath; bathing in the open air; bathing or cleaning oneself
• cleaning oneself for religious purification

noun:

• scholar beholden to the government; self-serving academic; scholar who toadies up to government authorities - four character idiom

noun:

• (Edo-period variety of) realistic literature; popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period

noun:

• interpretation of dreams; dream reading; oneirocriticism; oneiroscopy
• The Interpretation of Dreams (book by Sigmund Freud, 1900)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to count on one's fingers
• to count down the days (in anticipation); to look forward to

expression / ichidan verb:

• to establish a lead
• to distinguish (between); to ascertain or tell the difference (between); to discriminate

expression:

• A cornered rat will bite the cat; One who is cornered will fight like a devil - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• turning things around with a home run; turning the tables with a single successful attack (move) - four character idiom

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make oneself popular without any regard to others; to take all the credit to oneself

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:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to say time and time again; to say till you're blue in the face

expression:

• I am writing to you; I am (taking the liberty of) getting in touch with you - template phrase used in business writing - polite language

noun:

• Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)

noun:

• left-hand match; begins-with match; matching a sub-string with the beginning of a field - IT term ➜ 部分一致・後方一致

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to speak one's mind; to be frank; to tell the truth; to be brutally honest

noun:

• elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school