noun:

• day in the near future when a major event is expected to occur - colloquialism - From English "X-day"

noun:

• transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another) ➜ 式年遷宮祭

noun:

• case that something major happens; event of an emergency; when it comes to the crunch

noun:

• Qing-dynasty system assigning equal numbers of Manchurians and Han Chinese to central government agencies

noun:

• locomotor ataxia; difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.); someone with this problem - colloquialism - sensitive

noun:

• flux (substance mixed with a solid in order to lower its melting point); fusing agent

expression:

• a curse will rebound on yourself as well; curses, like chickens, come home to roost - proverb

expression:

• he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; fleeing is winning [literal] - proverb

noun:

• tool which is attached to something (e.g. fire extinguisher on a boat); accessory; appliance

noun:

• body set on fire from head to foot (like a daruma doll being ritually incinerated)

noun / suffix noun:

• nature (of a person or thing)
• that which does not change according to external influences - Buddhism term

noun:

• chocolate given to a boy on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• Australian marbled catshark (Atelomycterus macleayi, species endemic to Australia)

noun:

• King's goanna (Varanus kingorum, species of small carnivorous monitor lizard native to the Australia)

noun:

• Monrovia doctorfish (Acanthurus monroviae, species of Eastern Atlantic tang found from southern Morocco to Angola)

noun:

• ninespine batfish (Zabidius novemaculeatus, species of Indo-Pacific spadefish found from Indonesia to northwestern Australia)

noun:

• Luvaridae; family containing one extant species of perciform fish similar to a surgeonfish

noun:

• place where one spends the night to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction - the へ is pronounced as え in this word - archaism ➜ 方違え・方塞がり

noun:

• to stamp on the ground rhythmically while singing ➜ 鼓腹撃壌
• ancient Chinese game of wooden clog throwing

noun:

• room in Edo castle where the shogun's council of elders attended to governmental affairs

noun:

• branch-twined hedge around a field to keep out wild boars and deer
• abatis

noun:

• Fuyutopia (government program to help create a winter living environment in northern Hokkaido)

noun:

• pipe buried under a road with nozzles that spray liquid to melt snow

noun:

• koto erected in one's yard as decoration during the Festival to Plead for Skills - archaism ➜ 乞巧奠