noun:

• the opposite team in a two-turns work group

noun:

• The Union of South Africa

noun / ~する noun:

• hopping on one foot

noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey ➜ 煙管乗車

noun:

• slipping out the back way with swindled goods

noun:

• identifying (oneself) with the middle class

noun:

• loss of a low-ranked wrestler in the extra eighth bout in the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• lying on one's belly; crawling on one's belly; belly crawl

noun:

• add-on

noun:

• familiarity with the land
• locality or terrain (usually associated with knowing or feeling the locality)

noun:

• revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought) - four character idiom

expression:

• trend of the times; way things are going

expression:

• poverty is the greatest motivator; poverty is the mother of invention - proverb

noun:

• wearing a kimono (or awase) without any undergarments on - obscure term

expression:

• a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers - four character idiom

adverb / noun:

• along the way; along the road

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

expression / noun:

• age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of a girl in the late teens)

noun:

• respecting the intentions or wishes of someone

noun:

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

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• as the sound of footsteps - archaism

noun:

• labor system in which able-bodied men were required to work for periods in the capital (ritsuryo system)

expression:

• mountain in the winter; sleeping mountain [literal] - poetical term ➜ 山笑う

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to walk on stilts ➜ 竹馬

noun / ~する noun:

• standing out from the crowd; dominating; rising abruptly - archaism
• towering high - archaism