noun:

• drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke
• doing something suddenly, without warning

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• (a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

counter:

• counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system) - archaism

noun:

• (in China) 8th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. A) ➜ 黄鐘【おうしき】・十二律
• sixth lunar month

noun:

• empathetically putting oneself in the place of a handicapped person - From English "cap handy"

noun:

• curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture) ➜ 母屋【もや】・庇

noun:

• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to strike someone a blow; to bring down (a stick on someone's head)

expression / adjective:

• to have a lot on one's shoulders; to bear a lot of responsibility

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

~と adverb:

• vacantly; blankly; absentmindedly - onomatopoeia
• openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; gaping; flabbergasted - onomatopoeia
• with a whack; with a thump - onomatopoeia

noun:

• tunnel

~する noun:

• to tunnel (through a potential barrier) - Physics term

noun / ~する noun:

• letting a grounder go through one's legs - Baseball term

adverb:

• determining an attitude or response according to the opponent - four character idiom

noun:

• training matches where the winner picks his next opponent

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary inspection; having a look in advance
• preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes)

noun:

• siding (on a house); clapboard; weatherboard ➜ 下見板【したみいた】

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to move along with the times - obscure term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts - abbreviation ➜ 卒業制作

noun:

• return slot (for coins in a vending machine); drop-off point (for dirty dishes at a restaurant)