noun:

• all of one's relatives by blood and by marriage; one's kith and kin - four character idiom

expression:

• having exhausted every available means; having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows [literal]

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

noun:

• tall chair (e.g. for eating at a counter); bar stool
• high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food ➜ 子供椅子

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

noun:

• suicide immediately after the death of one's spouse or lover; following one's lover (husband, wife) into death

expression / ichidan verb:

• to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

noun:

• booklet constituting an informal living will (containing wishes regarding one's hospitalization or funeral, and perhaps one's life story, messages to loved ones, etc.) - From English "ending note"

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to apply for; to make an application; to propose (marriage); to offer (mediation); to make an overture (of peace); to challenge; to lodge (objections); to request (an interview); to subscribe for; to book; to reserve

interjection:

• Hi!; Yo!; Hey man!; Hey dude!; greeting used between close male friends

noun:

• ornately decorated horse used in processions of dignitaries
• horse led by a rope

noun:

• arrow with a whistle attached; whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle ➜ 嚆矢

noun:

• moving picture (i.e. a movie; term esp. used during the silent movie period) - obsolete term

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books

noun:

• software used to note content typed (typically to steal passwords) - IT term - From English "key logger"

noun:

• arm (esp. upper arm) - archaism

counter:

• counter used to measure the thickness of round objects

noun:

• "sushi mat" (bamboo mat used in food preparation, especially to roll makizushi) ➜ 巻寿司

noun:

• parallel marker (particle used to join two or more words, i.e. "to", "ya") - Linguistics term

noun:

• parallel marker (particle used to join two or more words, i.e. "to", "ya") - Linguistics term ➜ 並立助詞

noun:

• Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

noun:

• Fujiwara period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 894-1185 CE)

noun:

• Hakuho period (esp. used as a period of art history, approx. 645-710 CE)

noun:

• bing-bong bang-bong (Big Ben chimes, used as a bell in Japanese schools) ➜ 予鈴

noun:

• IC tag (integrated circuit tag, used as an alternative to bar codes)

noun:

• ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)