expression:

• one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term

adverb:

• what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo)
• what article? (in a law)
• how can?; cannot possibly; there is no way - the 条 in 何条 is an ateji - archaism

noun:

• putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage

noun:

• nailist; someone whose occupation is to cut any type of nail, apply artificial nails (or "nail art") and care for nails

noun:

• catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen - Baseball term
• tank (character that soaks up damage for the rest of the party in an MMORPG)

adverb:

• without hesitation; frankly (esp. speaking); bluntly; without shilly-shallying; straight to the point; getting to the heart of the matter ➜ ずばり
• cutting (forcefully, directly); piercingly

noun:

• the teachings of Buddha (as likened to the Dharmachakra, originally a wheel-like weapon used to destroy the evils of mankind); Buddhist doctrine - Buddhism term ➜ 輪宝・転法輪

expression:

• the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long; the well with sweet water will be the first to run dry [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make the smart move (after taking in the situation, etc.) ➜ 気を利かせる
• to do the tactful or helpful thing (after considering someone's feelings) ➜ 気を利かせる

noun:

• The Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan within three months of the German surrender: Feb. 11, 1945) ➜ ヤルタ会談

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

noun:

• cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

conjunction:

• if it happens that; if we make ...; if we take ...; if we assume ...; what if ...?

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

expression / adjective:

• unable to get along; unable to cooperate; unable to hit it off; not seeing eye to eye - idiom

noun:

• the whole world
• the whole country
• society; the public
• supremacy over a nation; government of a country; the ruling power
• having one's own way; doing as one pleases

~の noun:

• peerless; incomparable; superlative; world-famous

noun:

• shogun (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• the person concerned; the person in question; the said person

noun:

• His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor - abbreviation ➜ 今上天皇【きんじょうてんのう】・今上陛下【きんじょうへいか】

noun:

• His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor ➜ 今上天皇【きんじょうてんのう】

noun:

• His Majesty the Emperor; the present emperor; the reigning emperor

expression:

• to the core; to the bone; to the marrow [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• south face; south side; the south; facing the south
• ascending the throne; ruling

noun:

• sense of the trend of the times; sensitivity to the changing times - four character idiom ➜ 時世感覚

noun:

• Yamaraja (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• (at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year