expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wait for one's chance; to wait for an opportunity

noun:

• life; lifetime; career

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• for life; all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives

noun:

• child (esp. a boy)
• viscount ➜ 子爵
• master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius) - honorific language
• philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings ➜ 諸子百家
• you (of one's equals) - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing...)

noun / ~する noun:

• self-satisfaction; self-complacency; complacency
• understanding (on one's own); realizing (through one's own ability)
• being paid back for one's deeds ➜ 自業自得【じごうじとく】

noun:

• ninja (persons in feudal Japan who used ninjutsu for the purposes of espionage, assassination, sabotage, etc.) ➜ 忍術

noun / ~する noun:

• shading; color; colour
• kumadori; style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles

noun:

• Miura map fold; special technique for folding used on some solar panel arrays

noun:

• pail-like wooden container typically lacquered in Japanese style, used for holding and serving hot liquids

noun:

• family crest based on a japonica flower - archaism
• style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances - archaism ➜ 常磐津【ときわず】

expression:

• neither one thing nor the other; too short for a belt, too long for a sleeve tie [literal]

noun:

• small block of wood used to clean one's buttocks after defecating

expression:

• time waits for no-one; time and tide stay for no man - proverb

noun:

• one mobile telephone ring (used by companies, usually sex-related, to register a phone number on a mobile in the hope people will return the call. Also used between acquaintances when swapping telephone numbers, or to get another person to call oneself)

noun:

• one's company; company one works for

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• in-house; belonging to the company

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

noun:

• infusion of kudzu, cinnamon, etc., used as an antifebrile, for hangovers, etc.

noun:

• drinking spring water; taking the waters; onsen water used for medical treatment

noun:

• actual printing stock; paper stock used for a final print run

noun:

• century; hundred years; "a long time" [figurative]

adverbial noun:

• once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat; one inning

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind

noun:

• one leaf
• one page; one sheet; one card; one photo ［いちよう］
• one boat - archaism

particle / conjunction:

• if; when
• and
• with
• particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.) ➜ って

noun:

• promoted pawn - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ と金

particle:

• ? - at sentence end; indicates question - Kyūshū dialect

noun:

• decapitation; beheading - sensitive
• firings; dismissals; layoffs; downsizing
• small samurai sword used for decapitation

noun:

• flake; chip
• speck or flake used for the production of stone tools