expression:

• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope

noun:

• seventh of January (lunar calendar) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• cytolysis; breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

noun:

• recognition of an unborn child (for the purposes of claiming nationality)

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to take advantage of the troubled times (of an ambitious adventurer) - obscure term

noun:

• avulsion (e.g. removal of land by the action of water)

noun:

• time of receipt (of a package, etc. by the post office)

noun:

• Salvelinus; genus of salmonid fish of the family Salmonidae

noun:

• Trimma yanoi (species of goby from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan)

noun:

• increase in the level of academic achievement; popularisation of higher education

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)