noun / suffix noun:

• special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi) - archaism

noun:

• secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

noun:

• street performance in which the performer transforms a specially-made bamboo screen into various shapes while chanting an accompanying poem ➜ 南京【ナンキン】・簾【すだれ】

noun:

• business conditions; the market; economic activity; economic climate
• good (economic) times; prosperity; boom ➜ 好景気
• liveliness; energy; vigour; vigor; spirit

~の noun / temporal noun:

• current; urgent; pressing; impending

~する noun:

• to confront (an issue); to face (up to something)

adverb:

• for the meantime; at present

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; undersized; small size ➜ 大振り

noun / ~する noun:

• short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.

noun:

• sliding feet; shuffling (one's feet)
• moving legs forward with feet never leaving the ground (exercise) - Sumo term

noun:

• deposit (e.g. on the purchase of a house); earnest money; guarantee money
• margin (payment); warrant money; cover

expression:

• man proposes, God disposes; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

expression:

• kome hyappyo; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; hundred sacks of rice [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - idiom ➜ 門前雀羅【もんぜんじゃくら】

noun:

• wife; Mrs; madam ［ふじん・はしかし］ - honorific language
• wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) ［ふじん］ - archaism
• consort of the emperor ［ふじん・ぶにん］ - archaism

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• parallelism; running parallel (to, with)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with ➜ 並行

noun:

• old shop; shop of long standing

~の noun:

• well-established; first of the kind; veteran

noun:

• first rank in the senior class (in martial arts, go, etc.); lowest rank; one dan

noun / ~の noun:

• eared seal (esp. the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus); sea lion ➜ 海豹

noun / ~する noun:

• the flight formation of geese; lining up shoulder to shoulder like flying geese; leading out

noun / ~する noun:

• following one's master into the grave; committing suicide after one's lord has died

noun:

• express home delivery (by the Kuroneko Yamato company); door-to-door parcel delivery; courier service ➜ 宅配便

noun / ~する noun:

• erection when waking in the morning; nocturnal penile tumescence; morning glory; morning wood
• early morning departure

noun:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to surface; to come to the top
• to stand out (e.g. against a background)

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

noun / ~の noun:

• bottom-up approach to management; on-the-spot decision-making; hands-on approach (policy, etc.)