noun:

• mounted bandit (esp. historically in NE China from the end of the Qing dynasty)

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れ舞台

expression:

• slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping - proverb

noun:

• anticipating the escape of the king and blocking him in advance with a knight - Shōgi term

noun:

• government position (or office) not specified in the administrative code of the ritsuryo - archaism ➜ 令【りょう】・律令【りつりょう】

noun:

• system that allows for the construction of highways and buildings in the same space

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

noun:

• passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)

noun:

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

expression / noun:

• leaving an online shopping session without purchasing the goods in the cart - IT term

noun:

• scalloped bonnethead (Sphyrna corona, little-known species of hammerhead shark found in the eastern Pacific from southern Mexico to northern Peru)

noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a nutshell; in a word; to cut a long story short

expression:

• in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sensitive to smoke

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to dislike the company of (someone); to consider (someone) a burden or nuisance

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to incline; to lean; to tip; to tilt; to slant; to bend; to list
• to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to pour one's energy into
• to ruin; to squander; to empty
• to drink (alcohol)

noun:

• day of the boar in the month of the boar (the 10th month) ➜ 亥の子の祝

expression:

• in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fail to earn a credit
• to fail to make the grade

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to begin to get dark; to begin to set (the sun)

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to go to bed; to be sick in bed; to be laid up

expression / ichidan verb:

• to (be able to) make contact; to (be able to) get in touch ➜ 連絡を取る

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to suffice; to serve the purpose; to be satisfied

expression / ichidan verb:

• to approach the finale; to come to a close