noun:

• game similar to rock, paper, scissors, with the hand gestures fox, hunter and village headman

noun:

• court noble; nobility ➜ 公家【くげ】
• three lords and nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government) ［こうけい］

noun:

• paper-covered frame put over a hearth or brazier to make the fire last longer

noun:

• growing older
• aging ceremony (on New Year's Eve or the last night of winter)

noun:

• iyamisu; mystery fiction subgenre dealing with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature - from イヤな汗 and ミステリー ➜ 嫌【いや】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• what a hoot!; joke of the century!; one's navel boils water [literal] - idiom ➜ へそで茶を沸かす【へそでちゃをわかす】

noun:

• new release of a song by the original artist or composer - From English "self cover"

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice

expression:

• in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• security police; special police
• special; TV special ➜ スペシャル
• standard-playing (record); SP ➜ ＬＰ
• shore patrol
• sales promotion ➜ セールスプロモーション
• save point - Baseball term ➜ セーブポイント
• short program (in figure skating) - Sports term ➜ ショートプログラム
• structured programming - IT term ➜ 構造化プログラミング

noun / ~の noun:

• place where things are sold; point of sale; POS; sales floor; counter (in shop)

noun:

• favorable time to sell; good time to sell ➜ 売り時・買い場

adverb / ~と adverb:

• creaking; squeaking - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• packing in tightly; cramming; squeezing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly; with force - onomatopoeia

adverb / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• going hard (on someone); tormenting (e.g. with questions) - onomatopoeia

particle:

• or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options)
• ... or ... - usu. in the form ...なり...なり
• as soon as; right after - after dictionary form verb
• while still; with previous state still in effect - after past tense verb

noun:

• New Year food for entertaining a guest served in multilayered lacquered boxes
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - Edo name - archaism ➜ 蓬莱飾り【ほうらいかざり】

adverbial noun / noun:

• now; the present time; just now; soon; immediately; (one) more

adverbial noun / noun:

• all members (unanimity); all hands; the whole crew; everyone; everybody

adverb / ~の noun:

• as ever; as usual; the same; still

noun:

• look; expression of the eyes; eyes

noun:

• Hon'inbō; Honinbo; grand master of the game of go ➜ 本因坊戦

noun / suffix noun:

• tribe; clan; band
• (taxonomical) tribe
• group (of the periodic table)

noun:

• wind power

prefix:

• force (level on the Beaufort wind speed scale)

noun:

• closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of Edo era