noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get the hang of; to learn the secret to

expression:

• when it's important; when it comes to the crunch; when push comes to shove; when it comes to the point; in one's hour of need; at the critical moment ➜ いざ

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fall in love at first sight
• to see for the first time; to meet for the first time - archaism
• to have sexual relations for the first time - archaism

noun:

• germ rice; half-milled rice; semi-polished rice; rice with the germ; rice polished to remove the bran but not the germ; milled rice with embryo buds - Food term

noun:

• semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

noun:

• compromised shaku (compromise between the Kyouhou shaku and the Matajirou shaku; approx. 30.3 cm) - archaism

ichidan verb:

• to have become worn
• to be used to the ways of the world

noun:

• supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to the Earth

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to duff (golf); to sclaff; to hit the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term ➜ ダフ

noun:

• Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

expression:

• be moderate with your mouth; sickness enters through the mouth, calamities come out of the mouth [literal] - proverb

noun:

• crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray
• difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement

noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine

noun:

• tactic of avoiding hitting the ball (e.g. to tire out the pitcher) - Baseball term - From English "waiting"
• waiting; holding back; refraining

noun:

• whitefin surgeonfish (Acanthurus albipectoralis, species of Western Pacific tang found on the Great Barrier Reef through the Coral Sea to Tonga)

noun:

• building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds) - archaism ➜ 武徳殿

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom

noun:

• Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)