noun:

• chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; paymaster
• chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)

noun / ~の noun:

• left-wing (politics) Antonym: 右翼

noun:

• left wing (of a bird, aircraft, formation, etc.); left flank
• left field - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese

noun:

• soft tennis; tennis played with soft rubber balls instead of hard yellow balls ➜ 硬式テニス【こうしきテニス】・ソフトテニス

noun:

• sale of one's belongings before returning to one's country; sayonara sale

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• radical change in mentality; radically changing one's way of thinking; radical change in consciousness - four character idiom

noun:

• points to note; points of concern; matters to keep in mind; matters that require attention - four character idiom

noun:

• rolling something thinly; something rolled thinly (a thin roll of makizushi, a cigarette, etc.) ➜ 太巻き【ふとまき】

expression:

• to close in on (30 years of age, etc.); to approach; to get close to - archaism ➜ 垂んとする

noun:

• friend of a mother who is also a mother; mothers who are friends

expression / adjective:

• in bad shape; not doing well; not going well; out of condition; in poor form ➜ 調子がいい【ちょうしがいい】

noun / ~の noun:

• China and North Korea; Chinese-North Korean

noun:

• imperial court
• Imperial Court (of Japan)
• middle ages

noun / ~する noun:

• extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; eradication; destruction; suppression
• making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings - Buddhism term
• curing illness

noun:

• policeman; cop - esp. お巡り ➜ お巡りさん
• walking in a circle (dog trick) - esp. お回り
• rounds (doctor, police beat, etc.) - archaism
• vegetables that accompany rice (secret language of court ladies) - archaism ➜ おかず・女房言葉

noun:

• ticket; token; check; receipt
• label; tag
• sign; card; plate
• playing card
• charm; talisman ➜ 守り札
• slip of paper posted on shrine pillars by pilgrims

noun / ~する noun:

• receiving in advance; taking before others
• prefetch - IT term
• anticipatory completion; finishing another person's sentence in anticipation of what likely to be said next - Linguistics term

noun:

• rim of a volcano, esp. Mt. Fuji
• wrestling ring - Sumo term
• dire or risky situation with no room for error; sink-or-swim position

noun:

• sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

adjective:

• smelling burnt; smelling scorched
• smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if military action seems about to happen); war is looming
• suspicious; dubious; questionable

noun:

• position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); open interest; outstanding account; sales or purchase contract

noun:

• (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:

• to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to communicate (with) ➜ 通じる
• to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to get through to
• to be understood; to be comprehended
• to be honored; to be good
• to be well versed in; to be well-informed
• to communicate clandestinely; to keep in touch (e.g. with the enemy)
• to form a liaison; to be intimate

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to freeze (of one's body); to be frozen; to become numb (with cold); to be chilled

noun:

• writing down from other written material; writing kanji text from hiragana
• transcription (of spoken material)