noun:

• role (which someone or something plays in a given situation); part; contribution (to a given situation)

noun / ~する noun:

• government service; entering government service
• (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve ➜ 浪人

noun:

• being at one's wit's end; being (quite) at a loss (what to do) - four character idiom

adverb:

• just when (one is about to ...); just as; the very moment when; on the point of

noun:

• death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)

noun:

• head and body

suffix:

• heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long - after a number

expression:

• I am writing to you; I am (taking the liberty of) getting in touch with you - template phrase used in business writing - polite language

noun:

• portable stove for boiling water to make tea used for the tea ceremony during the summer

noun:

• coiled dragon; dragon coiled on the earth, which has not yet ascended to the sky

noun:

• formal objection (to an administrative disposition); request for examination (of a patent); request for administrative review - Law term

noun:

• as freely as one pleases; at will; to one's heart's content - four character idiom

noun:

• rice washed in cold water; dried rice soaked in water to soften

noun:

• way of affixing something
• way of recording something (to a logbook, etc.)

expression:

• there is no problem; there is no need to go into details - archaism

noun:

• cooking (something) to a golden brown; something cooked until it's golden brown - obscure term

noun:

• conversion of agricultural land (e.g. to non-agricultural uses); conversion of farmland

noun:

• visitor (to a shop or restaurant); customer (visiting a store or restaurant); patron

noun:

• books related to the calendar; the calendar; the almanac ➜ 暦

noun:

• speech meeting; oratorical meeting; meeting to hear a speech

noun:

• reproduction right; right of reproduction; right to make copies

noun:

• administrative ability; managerial ability; ability to manage; administrative capacity

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

adverb:

• as much as possible; as far as possible; to the best of one's ability; diligently

noun / ~する noun:

• national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners) ➜ 開国

noun:

• sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to