noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles

noun:

• blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work; the May blues

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• trick of leaning back and carrying one's opponent round and out of the ring - Sumo term
• last-minute reversal

noun:

• shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)

noun:

• the flourishing mid-Shōwa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease - four character idiom

expression:

• missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• robe with a round collar, stitched sides and a ran, worn by the emperor and high-ranking officials ➜ 襴

noun:

• honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

noun:

• brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea); brittlestar
• Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)

noun:

• Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus, rare species of fresh water requiem shark that dwells in the rivers of India)

noun:

• type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later
• being dead drunk; being very drunk - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• Kyoto's children
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext

noun / ~する noun:

• keeping a close watch on both sides; keeping an eye on two things at the same time

noun:

• divination based on laying out various items before a toddler and predicting his future based the items chosen

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• on the cheap side; comparatively cheap ➜ 高め【たかめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a lower score - Mahjong term

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; a round egg can be cut into a square [literal] - proverb

noun:

• skin
• body (in the context of intimate bodily contact) ➜ 肌を許す

noun / suffix noun:

• surface; grain (e.g. of wood); texture
• disposition; temperament; character; type ➜ 肌が合う

noun:

• swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin
• barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
• younger man involved with an older woman ➜ 若い燕

noun:

• bowstring
• string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.)
• bail (arched pot handle) - esp. 鉉
• diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu - also written as 梁 ➜ 枡

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け