noun:

• purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household); high-ranking priest's purple robe

expression / noun:

• more or less right; you are on the right track; getting warm ➜ いい線【いいせん】

noun:

• moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra
• imperial palace
• Yoshiwara red light district - archaism

noun:

• gathering evidence (e.g. to back a news story); getting the facts; obtaining supporting evidence

noun:

• chained library; library where the books are attached to their bookcase with a chain

noun / ~する noun:

• catching a fishing hook on seaweed, coral, etc. on the seabed or riverbed

noun:

• useable footage ratio; proportion of footage that can be used for the final cut

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

noun:

• 16,800,000-year period over which a human lifespan increases from ten years to 84,000 years (by one year per century) and then decreases back to ten (by one year per century) - Buddhism term

noun:

• eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son

adverb:

• not in the least; not at all; not a bit - before a negative

noun:

• unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy
• rice husks; chaff - abbreviation ➜ 籾殻

noun:

• animate nature; living things
• living person; the living - usu. せいじゃ or せいしゃ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to suffice; to serve the purpose; to be satisfied

expression / ichidan verb:

• to approach the finale; to come to a close

noun / ~の noun:

• lower leg; lower part of the body; lower limbs Antonym: 上体

noun:

• over-the-counter trading; OTC trading; off-floor trading - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to reign supreme; to assume the leadership (hegemony); to dominate

~の noun / noun:

• left of center (politically); left-leaning; tending to the left

~の noun / noun:

• right of center (politically); right-leaning; tending to the right

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to put an end (to); to close the books (on) ➜ ピリオドを打つ

noun:

• blackberry (esp. the common blackberry, Rubus fruticosus)
• BlackBerry (mobile device) - trademark

noun:

• salmon (esp. salmon swimming upstream in the autumn)
• salted salmon ➜ 塩鮭

particle:

• even
• even if; even though
• because of; on the grounds that

noun:

• Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression); Showa Depression ➜ 世界大恐慌