noun:

• pile; pool; collection ➜ 溜まる
• gathering spot ➜ たまり場
• waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring - Sumo term
• liquid runoff from miso preparation
• tamari; variety of rich soy sauce (used for sashimi, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 溜まり醤油

noun:

• on-the-spot or live broadcast; running commentary; blow-by-blow report; play-by-play report

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Jomon-period Japan) - archaism ➜ 耳当

noun:

• provincial governor's office - archaism ➜ 国司
• provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period) - abbreviation ➜ 国衙領

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; persistence
• radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily) ➜ 基【き】
• root - Mathematics term
• indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs) - Buddhism term

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

noun:

• caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods

noun:

• gambling mat (for dice games)
• altar mat for laying out offerings during the Bon festival

noun:

• weasel (esp. the Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi)
• mustelid (any other member of the weasel family, incl. badgers, martens, minks, ferrets, otters, polecats, stoats, skunks, etc.)

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun:

• shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck - four character idiom

noun:

• perestroika; reform movement within the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s - From Russian "perestroyka"

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - four character idiom

expression:

• the end justifies the means; circumstances may justify a lie - proverb

godan ~る verb:

• to set beyond the Western horizon (i.e. the sun) - poetical term ➜ 入る【いる】

noun:

• secret or hidden place
• female genitalia - euph.
• the underworld; the other world

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to eat something for the first time in the season

noun:

• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根も乾かぬうち【したのねもかわかぬうち】

expression / adverb:

• in the same breath; hardly had the words been said ➜ 舌の根の乾かぬうち【したのねのかわかぬうち】

noun:

• The Winter War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1939-1940)

noun:

• The Continuation War (between Finland and the Soviet Union 1941-1944)

pre-noun adjectival:

• The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people