noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• someone who became a teacher for lack of anything better to do - slang - derogatory term

noun:

• younger members of the group - abbreviation - From English "coming century"

noun:

• anniversary of a person's death - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• feeling out of place; feeling that one doesn't belong; feeling at a loss in the situation ➜ 身の置き所がない【みのおきどころがない】

noun:

• Convention of Peking (1860)

noun:

• trouble of going somewhere

noun:

• seam of joined boards
• cross grain (of wood)
• thick card made from several sheets of washi paper - abbreviation ➜ 板目紙

noun:

• team of doctors

noun:

• being out of office; lacking a title

noun:

• 20th of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• front line of (trenches for) deployed soldiers

noun:

• beginning of line; BOL - IT term

noun:

• petition of appeal

noun:

• eyes of the night
• eyes asleep; at night ➜ 夜の目も寝ない

noun:

• rays of the rising sun

noun:

• weapons of mass destruction; WMD

noun:

• soot of burnt pine; ink stick (made from burnt pine)

noun:

• the first part of a poem or verse

noun:

• school for Japanese outside of Japan

noun:

• alleviation of congestion (esp. traffic)

expression:

• as of the end of (today, this month, etc.); to make (today, etc.) the last (day) ➜ 声を限りに

expression / noun:

• tip of one's nose

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)