noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• rapid-fire gun or cannon
• talking rapidly; barrage of words or questions - colloquialism

noun:

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

noun / ~する noun:

• concurrently studying the teachings of two or more different schools or sects

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 / ~の noun:

• pastoral song or poem; a pastoral

adverb:

• more and more; all the more; increasingly
• at last; finally; beyond doubt
• (at the) last moment; worst possible time

ichidan verb:

• to think something over and over; to rack one's brains; to be at a loss

noun:

• closing (a market or trading session)
• closing price

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to send or direct a person to

noun / ~する noun:

• collusion before a bid or tender; bid-rigging ➜ 談合入札

noun:

• email from a cell phone or mobile phone ➜ 電郵

noun / suffix noun:

• composition; piece of music; song; track (on a record)

noun:

• tune; melody; air
• enjoyment; fun; interest; pleasure

noun / ~する noun:

• stretching pieces of a kimono on boards to dry after they have been washed and starched

noun:

• corn dog (frankfurter on a stick dipped in batter and deep-fried) - From English "American dog"

noun / expression:

• iroha order; traditional ordering of Japanese syllabaries (based on a Buddhist poem) ➜ 五十音順

noun:

• rolling (something); knocking down - abbreviation
• fishing with multiple hooks on a weighted line ➜ 転がし釣り
• repeatedly buying and selling

noun:

• inscription of a fantastic birdlike creature found on Yin and Zhou dynasty bronze ware, etc. - obscure term ➜ 文様

noun:

• ghost runner; placeholder used when fewer than 9 members are present on a team - Baseball term

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 / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• soldiers of the ritsuryo system that guarded gates of the imperial palace, the court, etc.
• term used in error to refer to young men that were made to do forced labour in the ritsuryo system
• guards originally stationed at the grand shrine at Ise and shrine at Atsuta, Nagoya to protect the officials there

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information) ➜ いいとこ取り【いいとこどり】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to get off; to abandon (a ship or vehicle)