expression:

• many irons in the fire; engaged in two trades at the same time; wearing two hats - idiom

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• daughter of the home; unmarried woman who owns (the future rights to) a home

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.

expression:

• A smile of a beautiful woman is worth a thousand pieces of gold; enchanting smile of a glamorous woman - four character idiom

noun:

• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

noun:

• criminal conspiracy (participation in the planning a crime, but not its execution)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph

noun:

• someone or something that just gets in the way; a burden ➜ 荷物

noun:

• clay bed-warmer (cylindrical with holes in the sides, containing a brazier)

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

noun:

• appointed official sent to administer a certain region (in the Ryukyu Kingdom)

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved both along the direction of cutting and across the blade ➜ 反台鉋

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• scoophead (Sphyrna media, species of little-known hammerhead shark found in tropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific)

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed [literal]