noun:

• National Military Establishment; forerunner to the U.S. Department of Defense (1947-1949)

noun:

• playing doctor; children examining each other's genitals (often as a role play)

noun / ~する noun:

• keeping an eye on people's belongings (so they don't get stolen)

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

• agile (person's movements); nimble; adroit; lively; brisk; skillful - onomatopoeia

expression:

• content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold - proverb ➜ 足るを知る

expression:

• there's but a fine line between genius and insanity - proverb

noun:

• pinfall; pinning an opponent's shoulders to the ground (e.g. in wrestling)

expression / noun:

• parents' partiality for their children; parents overvaluing their children

adverb:

• exactly; surely; certainly; just - esp. 正に when in kanji
• right then; just then; at that moment
• just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening) - esp. 将に when in kanji
• duly; naturally - esp. 当に when in kanji

expression:

• along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money - slang - abbreviation ➜ 鴨がねぎを背負って来る
• double stroke of good luck; Perfect timing!; How convenient (for you to show up)!

noun:

• bus without a step up into it, usually because it lowers itself or has a lift; low-floor bus - From English "non-step bus"

noun:

• candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender

noun:

• one daughter
• eldest daughter; first-born daughter ➜ 長女

pronoun:

• this one; this way; this method

noun:

• one house; the same house
• detached house

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• indicates passive voice (incl. the "suffering passive") - れる for 五段 verbs, られる for 一段 verbs. After the -nai stem of a verb ➜ 迷惑の受身【めいわくのうけみ】
• indicates the potential form - no imperative form
• indicates spontaneous occurrence - no imperative form
• used as an honorific for others' actions - no imperative form - honorific language

noun:

• Maratha; Mahratta; member of the Hindu people of Maharashtra (esp. a member of the royal or military caste)

noun:

• amateur wrestling on a street corner or in an empty field (esp. in autumn) - Sumo term
• wrestling show in a roadside tent - Sumo term

expression:

• (whether at) peace or at war; in peacetime and at war; order and chaos

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of accounting) ➜ 六知事

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make publicly known; to profess to be; to pretend to be; to pass off for; to pose as

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it - proverb

expression:

• being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) - four character idiom
• know-it-all manner