noun:

• sweeping the soot from one's house (to welcome the kami of the New Year) ➜ 神【かみ】・すす払い

noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun:

• oxygen absorber; oxygen scavenger; small packet placed in packaged food to absorb oxygen and prevent oxidation

noun / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

noun:

• examination paper; examination script; answer sheet
• answer (to an exam question)

expression:

• How do you do?; I am glad to meet you

noun / ~する noun:

• leaning to the right
• turning rightist; being on the (political) right ➜ 左傾

noun / ~する noun:

• attending a government office; going to work (for a government official)

noun:

• license with a red seal (licence); shogunate license to trade (licence)

auxiliary adjective / adjective:

• being too many (to finish or complete); being too much

noun:

• all over the body; from head to foot; all over

adverb:

• close to
• directly (e.g. staring)
• suddenly (e.g. stopping)

noun / ~する noun:

• being off to one side; being away off in the country

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to rest one's chin in one's hands

noun:

• direct negotiations; pressing a demand with a face-to-face talk

noun:

• points (already) allotted to one; points (already) gained (in earlier rounds)

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); Now is the time - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• eternity; through all eternity; for evermore; for many generations to come - four character idiom

noun:

• boat to transport mud
• (fictional) boat made of (dried) mud

noun:

• one's last journey; the journey to the other world; death

noun:

• good luck to come (omikuji fortune-telling result); future good luck ➜ 御神籤【おみくじ】

noun:

• quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown - archaism ➜ 帰りなんいざ

expression:

• don't talk nonsense; sleep talk after you go to sleep [literal] - humorous term

noun / ~する noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; linking little fingers to confirm a promise ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り