expression:

• just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

noun:

• knowledge of previous lifetimes (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

adjective:

• smelling of face powder ➜ 白粉
• coquettish; resembling the atmosphere of nightlife business

noun:

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

noun:

• person in charge of the brewing of sacrificial wine - archaism ➜ 神酒

noun:

• collection of short Heian period tales in the form of poems

noun:

• water monitor (Varanus salvator, species of carnivorous monitor lizard common from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines in the east); common water monitor ➜ サルバトールモニター

adverbial noun:

• due to the nature of one's job; because of one's line of work

expression:

• one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機

noun:

• first half of the year; first half of the fiscal year ➜ 下半期

expression / noun:

• hard work gone unnoticed; thankless task; a dance under a veranda [literal] - idiom
• off-stage dance that used to be performed on the 22th of the 2nd month in the lunar calendar in Osaka's Tennouji - orig. meaning

noun:

• crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

noun / ~する noun:

• raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level - From English "level up"

noun:

• the way something ought to be
• the (current) state of things; how things are

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle (a matter) for the time being; to complete the first stage (of something)

expression:

• after the decimal point; below the decimal

expression / ~の noun:

• of no account; beneath one's notice

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; the blue sea turns into a mulberry field [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings) ➜ 暦注

noun:

• heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, incl. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)

expression:

• mountain in springtime when all of the tree buds open at the same time; laughing mountain [literal] - poetical term

noun:

• provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period) - archaism

noun:

• triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits - Mahjong term

noun:

• ordinary verse of a renga (i.e. not the first three verses or the last verse)