adjectival noun / noun:

• being older or a senior; the first half of the year

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction

noun:

• stone bathtub
• steam bath taken inside a cavern or stone chamber

noun / ~する noun:

• act of joining a crowd or assembly of people; attendance

noun:

• woman employed in a restaurant, teahouse or teahouse offering sexual services ➜ 茶屋・色茶屋

noun:

• local card game (usu. a local version of hanafuda or kabufuda) ➜ 花札【はなふだ】・株札【かぶふだ】

noun:

• beauty of form or proportion (in a created object); solid beauty

noun:

• sports club (e.g. at school); sports department (e.g. in a newspaper) ➜ 文芸部

expression:

• dancing fool, watching fool; you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; all fools, so let's all dance

expression / adverb:

• at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn

noun:

• tempura served over a bowl of rice
• (in comedy) repeating the same gag or silly line - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun:

• immorality; injustice; misconduct; impropriety; perfidy
• adultery; infidelity; cuckoldry
• murdering one's teacher or a government official - archaism ➜ 八虐

noun:

• utility
• room with sink, washing machine, etc. in a house or apartment

noun:

• utility room (with sink, washing machine, etc. in a house or apartment)

noun:

• hinged bamboo water cup or trough, which makes a percussive sound periodically as it tips over

noun:

• rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil - Shintō term

noun:

• lines of the palm; aptitude; handwriting; apt move (in a go or shogi game); standard method

noun:

• huqin (any Chinese string instrument played with a bow)
• biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute) - archaism ➜ 琵琶

noun:

• distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage

noun:

• bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)

noun:

• green man; representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves

noun:

• last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th) - Buddhism term ➜ 弔い上げ

noun:

• regular column or opinion piece written by a different person each time - From English "relay column"

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
• to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
• to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously