adverb:

• after all; in the end; ultimately; eventually

noun / ~の noun:

• conclusion; end ➜ 結局のところ

noun:

• end of a game of go, shogi, etc. ➜ 終局

noun:

• nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

noun:

• someone who has a title but no real duty; useless person ➜ 取り巻き
• actor playing a daimyo who merely sets the scene as part of the background (in kabuki) - original meaning ➜ 大名

noun:

• Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles
• neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) ➜ 郷里制・国郡里制
• unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) ➜ 条里制

expression / noun:

• how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio

expression:

• one cannot shake the will of even the lowliest man; a person's will should be respected; even a menial deserves his convictions - proverb

noun:

• benefits gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings; happiness gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• whole year; all year round; throughout the year

adverb:

• always; all the time; perpetually ［ねんじゅう・ねんぢゅう］

noun:

• during an era
• middle class (of a nursery school, etc.) ［ねんちゅう］

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

noun:

• Balcony of Appearances; balcony where the imperial family appears before the public
• (sports) interview platform; winner's platform; rostrum - colloquialism
• dancing platform (in a disco) - slang

noun:

• height of summer; high summer; hottest part of the summer

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

expression:

• necessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one - proverb

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

noun:

• marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)