noun:

• fire in the neighborhood; fire in the neighbourhood

noun:

• breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation - four character idiom

noun:

• belief in the next world; belief in the hereafter - four character idiom

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun:

• nut (on the head of a shamisen, supporting the second and third strings)

noun:

• raised platform on the bank of a river for enjoying the summer cool

expression:

• pleased to make your acquaintance (formal phrase used on first meeting someone to encourage them to remember you)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that - usu. sentence ending
• to be the result (of); to be the outcome
• to be the reason (for)

noun:

• fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light
• person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on a moderate amount of lean or firm weight; to gain healthy weight (e.g. from muscle); to become overweight as opposed to obese

noun:

• father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period) - polite language

expression / ichidan verb:

• to "see stars" (i.e. after being hit in the head)

noun / adjectival noun:

• unenlightened; in the darkest ignorance; not knowing from A to B - four character idiom

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

noun:

• summer retreat where monks stay in the same place to study - Buddhism term

noun:

• first maple leaves to turn red in the season

noun:

• government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryo system) ➜ 主典

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant

noun:

• Satori; folklore monster that can read minds ➜ 悟る・悟る

noun:

• read-only memory; ROM - IT term

noun:

• erasable programmable read-only memory; EPROM - IT term

noun:

• direct read after write optical disk - IT term