noun:

• earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)

noun:

• parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother)
• (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• tao-tie (mythological Chinese creature engraved on bronzeware during the Shang & Zhou dynasties) - archaism
• brutal person - idiom
• coveting of wealth (property, etc.)

noun:

• Yatagarasu (mythical raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition) - obscure term ➜ 八咫烏
• three-legged crow inhabiting the sun in Chinese mythology ➜ 八咫烏

noun:

• variety show (e.g. on TV)

noun:

• ladies' day; promotional scheme where women are offered discounts on certain days (e.g. at cinemas) - From English

noun:

• conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation

conjunction:

• even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless; on the contrary; as a matter of fact; despite

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• usually; ordinarily
• continuous; 24-hour (e.g. observation, operation (of a machine), care (of patient)); always on

noun:

• awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion

noun:

• underhand grip; backhand grip (e.g. in tennis) ➜ 順手
• unexpected twist; turning the tables (on an opponent)

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

expression / noun:

• a fish on the chopping board; person in a situation where they are rendered powerless - idiom

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest while the paddies are still covered with snow - four character idiom

noun:

• troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen - four character idiom

noun:

• furikake put on rice to make it blue, which is said to act as an appetite suppressant - colloquialism ➜ ふりかけ

noun:

• pota pota yaki (var. of senbei (rice cracker) coated with a sweet soy-sauce glaze on top)

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 茅の輪

noun:

• Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on Oct. 22); Jidai Festival

noun:

• row of syllables on the Japanese syllabary table that ends with the vowel sound "a" - Linguistics term ➜ 五十音