noun:

• food tray (used in the food industry)

noun:

• Buddha; merciful person; Buddhist image
• the dead; dead person; spirit of the dead

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• en route; half-way
• on the road; in the street

noun:

• shopfront; storefront; shopwindow; (near the) shop entrance

~の noun:

• over-the-counter - Finance term

noun / ~の noun:

• the teens (10-19); teenage ➜ 代・台

noun:

• the tenth generation ［十代・１０代］

noun:

• (musical) time; tempo; beat; rhythm
• the moment; the instance; chance - esp. 〜した拍子に

noun:

• leaving the nest
• going out into the world; becoming independent

noun:

• imperial palace
• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress - abbreviation ➜ 内裏雛

noun:

• all living things; mankind; the people; the world - Buddhism term

expression:

• without the least difference; exactly; perfectly; to the inch

noun:

• Western European (esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese); southern barbarian [literal] - used from the Muromachi to the Edo period - archaism ➜ 紅毛人

noun:

• goods loaded in the afternoon for delivery the following morning

noun:

• adoption or rejection; choice; separating the needed from the unneeded

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - abbreviation ➜ 尊皇攘夷

noun:

• the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses

noun:

• shogi game with the superior player playing without the kaku

noun:

• conformism; following the crowd; swimming with the tide; me-tooism - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• opponent; adversary; the competition; the other side; one's enemy - four character idiom

noun:

• company name with the words "kabushiki kaisha" at the end ➜ 前株

noun:

• the entombed; the person buried (usually in burial mounds, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• stroll on the Ginza (i.e. the street)

noun:

• the wherewithal; means; the money (needed to do something)

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

expression:

• from the cradle to the grave