noun:

• crop; harvest; ripeness
• income; profits
• loaded (e.g. intermodal containers in the transport industry) ➜ 空コン

noun / ~する noun:

• mistake; blunder; bungle; goof
• mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles - original meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• snail's pace tactics; walking slowly when voting in the Diet to delay proceedings - four character idiom

noun:

• senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)

noun:

• finishing touch; completing (something) by executing the final, critical step - four character idiom

noun:

• gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater) ➜ 義太夫

expression:

• much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)

noun:

• hunt (where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters)

noun:

• fish sliced open, seasoned with mirin, soy sauce, etc. and dried in the sun

noun:

• stealthy steps
• spurt to overtake a leading horse just before the finish line

noun:

• the dharma eye - Buddhism term ➜ 五眼
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism - abbreviation
• title bestowed upon doctors, etc. - archaism

noun:

• rematch (e.g. in sumo when the match is too close to decide)

noun / ~する noun:

• closing, either for the day or permanently (e.g. theme park, botanical garden, etc.) - used for ~園 Antonym: 開園

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• giving off a foul odor; the air being heavy with an offensive smell - four character idiom

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

noun:

• a good chance coming along; the time has come (for, to, when...); opportunity knocking - four character idiom

expression:

• no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; fire on the opposite shore [literal]

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

noun:

• moyamoya disease (rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries in the basal ganglia)

noun:

• Agent Orange (dioxin-laden defoliant used during the Vietnam War) ➜ 枯葉剤

noun:

• creeper (plant that grows along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

counter:

• counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system) - archaism

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)