temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• backslapping; a smile and a tap on the shoulder [literal]
• backslapper; someone who smiles and gives you a slap on the shoulder; someone who wins people over

noun / ~する noun:

• intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha

noun:

• day of the boar in the month of the boar (the 10th month) ➜ 亥の子の祝

noun:

• value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles - Mahjong term ➜ 圏風牌・門風牌・三元牌
• winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor - Mahjong term ➜ 役【やく】

noun:

• anticipated questions and answers (e.g. for a press conference, interview or oral exam); collection of hypothetical questions and answers

noun:

• many monsters, spirits, etc. forming a line and walking through the night - four character idiom
• veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about presenting a most scandalous sight

noun:

• principle; aim; main purpose; central part; pillar
• purport; gist; drift; meaning ［旨］
• instructions; orders; intention; wishes ［旨］

noun:

• the rise of the curtain; opening (of play) ➜ 幕開け
• beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

noun:

• leader of a female gang; leader of a group of delinquent girls

noun / ~の noun:

• peep; peeping

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures - abbreviation ➜ 覗き機関

noun:

• crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people)
• netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net
• slingshot; catapult

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit) - abbreviation ➜ 身八つ口

adverb / ~と adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

noun:

• white night (i.e. at the North or South Pole); short night; night under the midnight sun

noun:

• twisted thread or yarn; twining of thread or yarn

noun / ~する noun:

• writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition ➜ 作文【さくもん】
• formal writing with little real meaning

adjectival noun:

• with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 意味深長

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism

noun / ~する noun:

• dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip
• going the long way round; making a detour

noun:

• with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin - four character idiom