noun / ~する noun:

• using without permission; using information obtained in the course of one's duties - obscure term

noun:

• comments on current events; public sentiments of the day; current view; contemporary opinion

noun:

• hound; hunting dog; running dog; dupe; tool of another person; cat's-paw

noun:

• lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light

noun:

• commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians; great, unifying leader

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; blood-drenched
• desperate; frantic

noun:

• rights accruing to the head of a household (according to laws now obsolete)

noun / ~の noun:

• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

noun:

• welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival) Antonym: 送り火 ➜ お盆

noun:

• sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain; the rising sun

noun / ~する noun:

• accretion of snow (on power lines, tree branches, etc.); snow sticking to surfaces

noun:

• paltry sum of money; small change; odd money; pittance; chicken feed

noun:

• right of residence (i.e. right to go on leasing a house, etc.)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

noun:

• battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

noun:

• young person
• servant; errand boy in a samurai family
• person of lowly status

adjective:

• black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black

noun:

• dishonor that persists after death ➜ 生き恥
• shame at the moment of one's death

noun:

• Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night

noun:

• hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach

noun:

• stupid plan; inane way of doing something
• (one's own) plan or project - humble language

noun:

• ancient soldier's hat
• common soldier - abbreviation ➜ 陣笠連
• rank and file (of a political party) - abbreviation ➜ 陣笠連

noun:

• cord tied around the waist of a kimono before an obi is tied

expression / adjective:

• extremely busy; so busy one would even welcome the help of a cat [literal] - idiom