noun:

• reading-book; reader; guidebook; manual ➜ 入門書
• textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook) - original meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• opening, either for the day or a "grand opening" (e.g. theme park, botanical garden etc.) - used for ~園 Antonym: 閉園

noun:

• half-way up a slope or stairway; landing; center of three (horizontal) columns (of print) (centre)

noun / ~する noun:

• ramming attack; hurling oneself (at)
• throwing oneself into (e.g. a role); going all out

noun / ~する noun:

• descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany
• arrival (of an important person); appearance

noun:

• teppan-yaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting in half
• painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper - esp. 半折

expression:

• I'll write again soon (closure for a letter, etc.); more anon; sincerely yours; yours truly ➜ 不宣【ふせん】

expression:

• I'll write again soon (closure for a letter, etc.); more anon; sincerely yours; yours truly ➜ 不尽

noun:

• nine cuts mudra (mudra: hand posture which forms a part of Hindu prayer); exorcism-purification spell - Buddhism term

noun:

• boiled octopus - Food term
• person as red as a lobster

noun:

• feigning innocence, ignorance or naivety
• someone (esp. a woman) pretending to be innocent, ignorant or naive

noun:

• changing the world; turning the tide
• torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)

noun:

• plaything; playing (with a toy)
• gambling
• activity using hand-gestures (esp. playing games or singing songs)

noun:

• crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae

noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

noun:

• biting louse (any louse of order Mallophaga) ➜ 羽虱
• small winged insect (esp. a flying ant or termite) - colloquialism ➜ 羽蟻

noun:

• newspaper with a lot of advertisements and delivered for free of charge - From English "free paper"

noun:

• videotape recorder; VTR ➜ ビデオテープレコーダー
• video recording; pre-recorded video shown during a television programme

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by politicians (in the formulation of a policy or bill) (rather than by bureaucrats) - four character idiom

noun:

• base support (e.g. for a party in an election); substrate; load bearing layer; supporting layer

noun:

• stone sauna; facility where one rests on towels laid on a slab of heated natural rock

noun:

• zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)

noun:

• nap room (e.g. for doctors in an emergency ward, or firefighters in a fire station)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• keeping calm and collected at times of disappoinment; maintaining a serene state of mind in adversity - archaism - four character idiom