noun:

• rolling pin for making horse chestnut noodles
• hurry; haste; comparison to someone making horse chestnut noodles which requires great haste

noun:

• yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer
• grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow) - obsolete term
• failing to win a single hand during a half-game - Mahjong term

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning

noun:

• crime of plotting a crime; crime of preparing to commit an offense; preparation of a crime - Law term

noun:

• one-on-one fight; one-to-one fight - slang

noun:

• end to end - IT term

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener) ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其の・彼【あれ】

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• with evident joy of having lived up to one's reputation; having an effect of bolstering one's reputation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• bringing up a matter; discussion; debate; submission (e.g. a measure); referral (e.g. bill to a committee); placing (e.g. item on an agenda)

noun:

• bow (and arrow)
• unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet)
• unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)

noun:

• person who resorts to petty tricks; a person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks - four character idiom

noun:

• thoughts; opinion; (one's) discretion - honorific language
• however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.)
• fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love; fancy; liking

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures ➜ 覗き機関【のぞきからくり】
• water glass; hydroscope; box, etc. with glass bottom for viewing underwater ➜ 箱眼鏡【はこめがね】

expression / adjective:

• (something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened - after the past tense form of a verb
• never happens; there is never a time when

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)

noun:

• words used when miserable or anxious - archaism - obsolete term
• words used to decline or refuse something - archaism - obsolete term
• words used when making an appeal - archaism - obsolete term

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

expression / adjective:

• having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end; at one's wit's end

noun:

• gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan - archaism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

particle:

• particle indicating a command - particle always used at sentence-end
• particle indicating mild enthusiasm - often as ことね - female language
• particle indicating a gentle interrogative
• particle used to soften a judgment or conclusion - at sentence end as ことよ

expression:

• it's hard to notice one's own faults; one does not notice one's own body odour [literal] - proverb

noun:

• compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products); in this company's comparison
• as I see it; by my estimate - colloquialism

noun:

• rice that has browned (due to age)
• variety of low-quality foreign rice
• red rice (ancient variety of rice); red-kerneled rice

noun / ~する noun:

• starting to work in a shop; joining a shop as an employee
• going inside a shop
• opening up a shop (in a building, etc.)