noun:

• Edo period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns [literal]

noun:

• (one's) handling of the reins; how well one controls things

noun:

• clouds appearing before the wind starts to blow
• winds and clouds - esp. かぜくも ➜ 風雲【ふううん】

noun:

• stripping to one's waist; being bare from the waist up

noun:

• wild fox
• fox spirit from the Kyushu region capable of possession ［やこ］ - archaism

noun:

• drinking spring water; taking the waters; onsen water used for medical treatment

noun:

• Brachycome (genus of asters, esp. the swan river daisy, Brachycome iberidifolia); Brachyscome

noun:

• essence; true nature; substance; reality - archaism

adverb:

• originally; naturally; by nature; from the start - archaism

noun:

• restrictions on the use of colors by ranks of Heian era courtiers - archaism ➜ 許し色・黄丹

adverb:

• further; farther; furthermore; all the more; even more

noun:

• room connecting the two main rooms of a building; intermediate room

suffix:

• care of; at the household of (when addressing letter, etc.); c-o

noun:

• abomasum (fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant); maw; rennet-bag

noun:

• popliteal fossa; popliteal space; area behind the knee

noun:

• cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family

noun:

• unlicensed nursery; daycare services offered outside of the scope of traditional nurseries

noun / ~する noun:

• show one's real ability; illustration of the distinctive character of (something) - four character idiom

noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun:

• sudden emergence; sudden formation; coming out of nowhere; bursting onto the scene - slang

noun:

• Congo Free State (1885-1908 name of the Belgian Congo)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• tears or flower petals falling quietly - onomatopoeia ➜ はらはら・ぼろぼろ
• gurgling bird sound - onomatopoeia
• falling apart; crumbling; melting (in one's mouth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. - Food term

noun:

• anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster) ➜ 大蚊
• harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)

noun:

• mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend); "position in an organization to which an ineffective person is transferred" [figurative]

noun / ~する noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• targetting; aiming at a specific target; pinpointing

noun / ~する noun:

• selective hitting; swinging only at certain types of pitches - Baseball term
• having no choice in a move (e.g. mahjong, go, etc.)

noun:

• engineer-in-chief; chief engineer; chief scientist