noun:

• person who has died at his post (in the performance of his duties)

noun:

• nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to allow a less skilled person to practice with one (esp. in sumo) ➜ 胸を借りる

noun:

• doh; do; 1st note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• fa; fah; 4th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• soh; so; 5th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun / ~する noun:

• firmly bear in mind; have something engraved on one's mind (heart) - four character idiom

noun:

• sudden reversal in the tide of events; the situation taking a new turn - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely; in complete control of; with complete freedom; at will; as one pleases - four character idiom

noun:

• school for training bachelor girls in homemaking arts; (a type of) finishing school - four character idiom

noun:

• clumsy person; bungler; person with no particular talents (in performing arts); nondrinker; nonsmoker - four character idiom

noun:

• bad ending (in a film, novel, etc.); unhappy ending - From English "bad end"

ichidan verb:

• to write incorrectly (e.g. character); to make a mistake in writing

noun:

• punctuation words in haiku, renga, etc. such as "ya", "kana", "keri", etc.

noun:

• collar; area around the collar
• counterclockwise (when seated in a circle); anti-clockwise

expression:

• the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat - proverb ➜ 三十六計

interjection:

• yes; yeah; uh huh ➜ うん
• huh?; what?

auxiliary verb / suffix:

• not - negative verb ending used in informal speech; abbr. of negative verb ending ぬ ➜ ぬ

particle:

• 's - abbr. of particle の; indicates possessive ➜ の・の
• at (place, time); in; on; during - abbr. of particle に, used esp. when it precedes the verb なる ➜ に

noun:

• Tenpo calendar; Japan's last lunisolar calendar (in use from 1844 to 1872)

noun:

• focal point of a lens in front of the subject ➜ ピント

noun:

• hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)

noun:

• on par (in golf, meeting par for that hole) - From English "par on"

noun:

• dwelling place of a god (usu. in reference to a large rock) - archaism

noun:

• Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myoujin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)

noun:

• woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 院

noun:

• laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (type of laser eye surgery); LASIK