noun:

• taking photographs for a volume at the request of a publisher
• photographs taken for a volume at the request of a publisher

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• (in Chinese history) the Boxers

adverb:

• on the same day ➜ 今日中に【きょうじゅうに】

noun:

• decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year ➜ 注連縄

noun:

• State of the Union message

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to slip through the dragnet

noun:

• rule allowing the clear winner of a bout to touch down first to avoid injury - Sumo term

noun:

• year of the ox

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; to obsess over insignificant details and miss the larger point; to straighten the horns and kill the cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• coin used during the Hōei period (ca. 1708)

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• lifting (a child) high up in the air - children's language

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi - read as "ka" ➜ 箇【か】
• counter for articles - read as "ko" ➜ 個【こ】

particle:

• indicates possessive (esp. in place names) - read as "ga" ➜ が

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

ichidan verb:

• to draw the conclusion that ...; to conclude

noun:

• mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge; living a quiet life by effacing oneself - four character idiom

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 / godan ~つ verb:

• to go into the minutest details

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting in the open air

noun / ~する noun:

• reply to the throne

expression:

• not wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord - from the Book of Rites - proverb ➜ 不倶戴天

noun:

• the Meijiza Theater

noun:

• born of the same mother; kindred spirits

noun:

• the mistake of a wise man