noun:

• sliding safely - Baseball term
• just making it; being just on time ➜ ギリギリセーフ

noun:

• time of receipt (of a package, etc. by the post office)

noun:

• short term; short time

noun:

• irregular time; irregular metre - Music term

expression / noun:

• next inning; next time

noun:

• election time; election period

noun / ~する noun:

• having deep knowledge of; being expert in; being well versed in; being conversant with
• (a boy's) first ejaculation; semenarche

noun:

• word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji" ➜ 女房詞

noun:

• previous work; preceding work
• first crop grown in a double-cropped field; preceding crop

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• leniency policy; addition to Japan's antitrust law that allows lower fines for the first company involved in a cartel, etc. to admit their involvement - Law term ➜ 独占禁止法

noun / ~する noun:

• stepping (in place); stamping (up and down); stomping; marking time (for a soldier)
• standstill; stalemate

noun:

• regular column or opinion piece written by a different person each time - From English "relay column"

noun:

• performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) ➜ 浄瑠璃

noun:

• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) - Buddhism term
• becoming more experienced with age; social status based on this experience

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ ダブル立直【ダブルリーチ】

noun:

• the six classes of (kanji) characters ［りくしょ・りきしょ］
• Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)

noun:

• 10th month of the lunisolar calendar (traditional first month of winter, approx. November); late autumn; late fall ➜ 小春日和

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

noun:

• lantern festival, held on the night of the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar ➜ 小正月・元宵

noun / ~する noun:

• a round; a turn; going around; making a round ➜ 一回り【ひとまわり】

noun:

• first anniversary of a person's death ➜ 一周忌【いっしゅうき】

expression:

• almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time

expression / adverb:

• at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being

adverb:

• often; already; for quite a while; for some time now