noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• raising the curtain Antonym: 閉幕【へいまく】

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (of an event); start of a season Antonym: 閉幕【へいまく】

noun:

• impression of a seal over the joint of two papers; tally

expression / noun:

• six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference - idiom

noun:

• creditor; lender; credit side (of the ledger) ➜ 借り方
• method of lending

noun:

• hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)

noun:

• compendium of laws; statute books; complete book of the Six Codes [literal]

noun:

• font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine

noun:

• young of sardines; whitebait
• fry of the Japanese anchovy, eel, etc. ➜ 片口鰯・真鰯・鰻

noun:

• Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

noun:

• sensibilities (feelings, way of thinking) of the common people; popular sentiment - four character idiom

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction

expression:

• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope

noun:

• seventh of January (lunar calendar) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• cytolysis; breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

noun:

• recognition of an unborn child (for the purposes of claiming nationality)

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to take advantage of the troubled times (of an ambitious adventurer) - obscure term

noun:

• avulsion (e.g. removal of land by the action of water)

noun:

• time of receipt (of a package, etc. by the post office)

noun:

• Salvelinus; genus of salmonid fish of the family Salmonidae

noun:

• Trimma yanoi (species of goby from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan)

noun:

• increase in the level of academic achievement; popularisation of higher education

expression:

• just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

noun:

• knowledge of previous lifetimes (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通