noun:

• food mall; restaurant area (of a department store, airport, etc.); restaurant floor

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

noun:

• custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale - Music term ➜ 徴【ち】

noun:

• route for a date; course of activities for dating couples - From English "date course"

noun:

• the four most important tournaments in a particular sport; grand slam tournaments; majors

expression:

• blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator - proverb ➜ 時の氏神【ときのうじがみ】・挨拶

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb

noun:

• graduation concert (school, etc.)
• farewell concert for a group or band member

expression / noun:

• empty eyes; thousand-yard stare; blank glaze; expressionless look; eyes of a dead fish [literal] - idiom

noun:

• party venue; place for a party; banquet hall

noun / ~する noun:

• advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; briefing session
• overlap (of a coat, etc.)
• making something match exactly - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• disposal; throwing away; selling off
• dealing with (a problem); measure
• punishment; penalty
• putting down (e.g. diseased animal)

noun / ~する noun:

• execution; carrying out; performance; enforcement; exercise; service ［しっこう・しゅぎょう］

noun:

• lead monk performing various tasks in a temple - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

pronoun:

• we; us
• I; me - archaism
• you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors) - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• stinging; smarting; tingling; burning - onomatopoeia
• on edge; nervous; tense - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ripping; peeling; tearing - onomatopoeia
• shrill sound of a whistle - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• quivering; trembling - onomatopoeia

noun / suffix noun:

• training; education; upbringing

noun:

• stocking up; laying in
• preparation (e.g. ingredients)
• girl studying to become a geisha

noun:

• elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority
• Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

noun:

• stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise

noun:

• traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)

noun:

• double-dealer; fence-sitter; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict; duplicity; turncoat - four character idiom

noun:

• type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection