noun:

• race to be the pitcher with the most wins in the season - Baseball term - From English "hurler derby"

noun:

• one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call. Also used between acquaintances when swapping telephone numbers, or to get another person to call oneself)

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• opponent; adversary; the competition; the other side; one's enemy - four character idiom

noun:

• getting ready to go out in the snow; clothing for going out in the snow; snow gear - obscure term

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

expression:

• there is no way that ... (expresses speaker's belief that something is impossible)
• easy; simple

noun:

• store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business

noun:

• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - Buddhism term

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal] - obscure term

noun:

• iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards ➜ 居合い
• iai sword-drawing performance (used during the Edo period to sell medicine and other wares)

expression:

• that's exactly right; that's so true - abbr. of ほんまそれ or 本当にそれ - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing respectfully with one's hands clasped in front of one's chest - obscure term
• abdication of an emperor to a successor (China) - archaism

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• towering (as mountains do); of outstanding greatness (as a person) - archaism

expression:

• don't despair because you're the last to take your pick; you can find treasures in leftovers; one man's trash is another's treasure - proverb

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

noun:

• hired foreigner; foreign advisor hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji Era

particle:

• used to create a form of question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something, e.g. "Like hell I will!" - male language

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place)
• to be limited to; to be confined to

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand
• to get involved in; to make a move on
• to start a fight; to make a move in violence

noun:

• (monetary) present to a person in distress; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing for women and children (e.g. kimono, yukata) (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)