~と adverb / adverb:

• with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia

interjection:

• whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう

expression:

• be moderate with your mouth; sickness enters through the mouth, calamities come out of the mouth [literal] - proverb

noun:

• crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray
• difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement

noun:

• tactic of avoiding hitting the ball (e.g. to tire out the pitcher) - Baseball term - From English "waiting"
• waiting; holding back; refraining

noun:

• whitefin surgeonfish (Acanthurus albipectoralis, species of Western Pacific tang found on the Great Barrier Reef through the Coral Sea to Tonga)

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter ➜ 留守番

noun:

• caretaker or keeper (official post in the Edo era)

noun:

• Japan - archaism ➜ 八洲
• eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke & Shimotsuke) ➜ 関八州

noun:

• Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on post-Jin and Yuan teachings ➜ 古医方

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• Three Alls Strategy; Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War - 三光 is a ref. to a Chinese phrase meaning 'kill all, burn all, loot all'

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

noun:

• type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

noun:

• unscrupulous business practice of making sales by posing as an inspector and declaring the need for replacement items

noun:

• reason; principle; logic
• general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) - Buddhism term ➜ 事【じ】
• (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun:

• distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost - Baseball term

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• Isogomphodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae with one extant species known as the daggernose shark)

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

noun:

• Hell Korea; Hell Joseon; satirical South Korean term criticizing the current socioeconomic state of the country

pre-noun adjectival:

• of the time; at the time ➜ 時【とき】

noun:

• priest - used at certain shrines, e.g. Ise, Kamo - Shintō term
• member of one of the four administrative ranks in the ritsuryo system - archaism ➜ 四等官
• government official in charge of a town, esp. in Heian Kyoto - archaism
• prominent member of a town - archaism
• river boatman; captain of a riverboat
• (medieval) harbor manager - archaism
• bandit leader; head of a gang of brigands - archaism

godan ~る verb:

• to reach the limits; to come to the end of one's tether

noun:

• dim light; faint light; half-light of early morning; twilight

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the road; centrism; moderation; golden mean

noun:

• the middle (of what one is doing); half-way
• middle way; middle path - Buddhism term