noun:

• a few moments ➜ 一瞬

noun / ~する noun:

• making a mistake (in a game) - From English "play miss"

noun:

• one-sided wait for the end tile of a three-in-a-row which will finish one's hand (i.e. for a 3 while holding 1-2, or for a 7 while holding 8-9) - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 辺張待ち【ペンチャンまち】

expression:

• (bringing up a child) with greatest care pampering (him, her) with material comforts of a rich family; (being brought up) in a hothouse atmosphere - four character idiom

noun:

• gate of a palace

noun:

• plane of the ecliptic

noun / ~する noun:

• a follower; yield allegiance to

adverb:

• tucking up the hem of one's garments

noun:

• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

noun:

• family crest based on a japonica flower - archaism
• style of jōruri narrative used for kabuki dances - archaism ➜ 常磐津【ときわず】

noun:

• stroke of sword

noun / ~の noun:

• (with) broad horizontal stripes of different colors
• unevenness

noun:

• kabuki curtain, usu. of three coloured panels

noun:

• Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food ➜ 食糧法

noun:

• keeper of imperial archives
• worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce

noun:

• first law of thermodynamics - Physics term ➜ 熱力学の第一法則【ねつりきがくのだいいちほうそく】

noun:

• articles of commerce

noun:

• kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical - e.g. 道, 起

noun:

• (Confucian) scholar retained by a feudal lord or daimyo

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持す

noun:

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

expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun:

• land-locked variety of red-spotted masu trout (Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae); amago ➜ 皐月鱒

noun:

• Tropic of Capricorn

expression / ichidan verb:

• to carry a bomb [literal]; to have a bomb about to go off
• to have an imminent problem; to be in danger of relapse