noun:

• daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

noun:

• Shōwa restoration; Showa restoration; call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s

noun / ~する noun:

• pitching a tent; putting up a shack or tent (e.g. a circus tent)

noun:

• (theater, circus, etc.) tent or shack

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start (e.g. a scene, a war, etc.)
• to end (e.g. a play, an episode, an event, etc.)

noun:

• individual item (i.e. not part of a set); single article
• single item out of a set; one item from a set

noun / ~する noun:

• photo taken with a mobile phone; taking a photo with a mobile phone - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 写メール
• email from mobile phones with attached photos - abbreviation ➜ 写メール

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper)
• surface of paper
• letter; writings; document

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• white heat; incandescence
• becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax

noun:

• variant (in a manuscript or book); part of a text that differs from other versions

noun / ~する noun:

• accepting a challenge; returning fire; fighting back; putting up a fight; responding to an attack

noun:

• apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock ➜ 火蓋を切る

noun:

• blow to a vital point of a person's body; striking techniques (judo) - Martial Arts term

expression:

• doing one's own flower arranging
• marrying or making a mistress of a geisha

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun / ~する noun:

• go into a huddle (over); hold a secret conference (about); put heads together and conspire - four character idiom

noun:

• scooter with a compartment under the seat to hold a helmet - From English "(hel)met in" ➜ メット

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a damper on proceedings (e.g. at a meeting or party, etc.)

noun:

• in calligraphy, a stroke going from upper right to lower left with a pointed tail

noun:

• text message or symbol on a busy mobile phone indicating a call arrival (DoCoMo feature)

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

noun:

• sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo); oroblanco

noun:

• skipping grades; the act of entering a new school as a non-first-year student

noun:

• underboob; bottom of a woman's breasts (visible when wearing a short top) - slang ➜ オッパイ

noun:

• place where one can view a vast number of cherry blossom trees at a glance - esp. 吉野山 in Nara