noun:

• useless employees (shunted off by a window to pass their remaining time until retirement)

noun:

• capital letter
• first character of a dictionary entry
• matrix (printing)
• kanji corresponding to furigana

noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

• atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; skipping a generation; reversion to ancestral type

noun:

• water-filled bamboo tube in Japanese garden which clacks against a stone when emptied

adjectival noun:

• significant; suggestive; insinuating; meaningful

noun:

• words or behaviour that hints at a deeper meaning

noun:

• thin strip of wood smeared with sulfur, used to light a fire

noun:

• a service station for cars that run on alternative fuels

noun:

• storyboard (film, television); design for a series of movie scenes - abbreviation ➜ コンティニュイティ

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

noun:

• seeds
• producer-driven solutions; ideas, products, services, etc. proposed by a company to consumers

noun:

• chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to have training bouts with one's junior during practice (of a senior wrestler) - Sumo term

noun:

• (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity - four character idiom

noun:

• (a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• center of a noh stage

noun / ~の noun:

• Shōchū era (1324.12.9-1326.4.26) ［しょうちゅう］

noun:

• money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage ➜ 身請け

noun:

• summer greeting cards containing a lottery ticket, sold every year starting in June - sometimes かもめ～る

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

expression:

• giving something a try because one has nothing to lose ➜ 駄目元

noun:

• Cain complex (jealousy of a sibling, ultimately leading to hatred)

noun:

• plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution