adjectival noun / noun:

• having one's own way; giving free rein to one's desires; acting as one pleases

noun:

• Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• tarsal (relating to the tarsus - a group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)

noun:

• four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
• four gods said to rule over the four directions ➜ 四神

noun:

• days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle) ➜ 天一神・癸巳・戊申

noun:

• book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer) ➜ ブックカバー

noun:

• empowering women; promoting women's contribution; removing obstacles to women's full participation in society and the workplace

noun:

• banishment (to a nearby province); the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

noun:

• military administration; military government ➜ 民政
• government affairs relating to the military

noun:

• prefatory sutra - Buddhism term
• opening a sutra; beginning to read a sutra

expression:

• fighting (tilting at) windmills; working oneself up even though there really isn't anything to fight at - four character idiom
• single-person mimicking a wrestling match

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

expression:

• one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term

noun:

• Canopic jar; Canopic vase (used to store the internal organs of an Egyptian mummy)

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• Operation Tomodachi; United States Armed Forces assistance operation to support Japan in disaster relief following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

noun:

• new single (by a recording artist)
• person of marriageable age who remains single (e.g. to focus on their career) - From English

expression:

• what will happen to everyone else if I am not the one who goes? (expression of confidence from someone going out into the world)

~する noun:

• to master (a skill)

noun:

• proprietor; manager; owner; barkeeper
• leader; chief; head
• master (of arts, science, etc.)
• master (recording)
• master (device) ➜ スレーブ