adverb:

• on rare occasions; once in a blue moon

noun:

• iron sight (on a gun, etc.)

noun:

• judicial review by a higher court without introducing new evidence - Law term

noun:

• regular respondent to a periodical or radio program - slang

noun:

• advertising insert (e.g. in a newspaper); inserted flyer

noun:

• rain symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)

expression / noun:

• hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal [literal] - usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government - idiom - derogatory term

noun:

• kite with a (kanji or kana) character written on it

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

noun:

• Later Han Dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE) - esp. ごかん
• Later Han Dynasty (of China; 947-950 CE) - esp. こうかん

expression:

• curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)
• skill
• scope of one's power
• one's intentions; one's plan
• one's hand (mahjong, card games, etc.)

noun:

• the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
• varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ

noun:

• old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
• Meiji period women's hairstyle
• type of dance in kabuki ［揚げ巻・揚巻］
• knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) ［揚げ巻・揚巻］ - Sumo term
• constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion ➜ 廃れる【すたれる】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge
• to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.)
• to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.)
• to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

noun:

• picture of the world; world picture; image of the world; Weltbild

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:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

noun:

• Ministry of Health and Welfare (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) ➜ 厚生労働省

noun:

• second half of the year; second half of the fiscal year ➜ 上半期

noun / ~する noun:

• intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha

noun:

• first eastern wind of the year; first eastern wind of the spring

noun:

• day of the boar in the month of the boar (the 10th month) ➜ 亥の子の祝

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of ➜ あんな・こんな・どんな