noun:

• first wind of the season (esp. the first wind of autumn) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary loading of the (cargo) ship (in preparation for moving cargo around inside the ship)

noun:

• air brake

noun / ~する noun:

• increase in the number of vehicles, trains, etc.; increase in runs (bus, etc.) ➜ 減車

expression:

• one way or the other; either way

noun:

• the power of life or death - four character idiom

noun:

• War of the Roses

noun:

• change in the law; legal reform

noun:

• person who administered religious rituals within the dazaifu jurisdiction (ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 大宰府【だざいふ】

expression:

• poverty dulls the wit - proverb

expression:

• take care of the penny; he who makes fun of one sen will cry at one sen [literal] - proverb ➜ 一円を笑う者は一円に泣く・一銭

noun:

• central black dot on a go board
• Tengen era (978.11.29-983.4.15)

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

noun:

• tōsō-on; Tang-Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese ➜ 唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• the above-mentioned elementary school

noun:

• seventh month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term

noun:

• the Dow (i.e. the Dow Jones Industrial Average) - abbreviation ➜ ダウ式平均株価

noun / ~する noun:

• replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist image in the open

noun:

• one-sided wait for the end tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand (i.e. for a 3 while holding 1-2, or for a 7 while holding 8-9) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 辺張待ち【ペンチャンまち】

noun:

• return-on-investment ratio

expression / ichidan verb:

• to warm the bench; to stay on the bench during a sports match

noun:

• plane of the ecliptic

noun:

• reducing dependence on nuclear energy ➜ 減原発

adverb:

• tucking up the hem of one's garments