noun:

• flashing lights; revolving lights; lights used on the top of emergency vehicles

noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

noun:

• day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

noun:

• Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

noun:

• young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training - archaism
• man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryo system); commoner - archaism
• servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master ［はくちょう］ - archaism ➜ 白張

noun:

• crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono); figured habutae

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】

noun:

• switch (long, tender shoot of a plant) - archaism
• switch (cane used for flogging) ➜ 笞【しもと】

expression:

• how have (you) been? (gen. used after some time apart); nothing (untoward) has happened, has it? [literal] - polite language

noun:

• soft vinyl; vinyl chloride monomer, used for moulded shapes such as toys ➜ ソフビ

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan)
• to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable

noun:

• to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to come fluttering in (e.g. leaves, snow, flowers, etc.); to come dancing in
• to drop in unexpectedly; to happen unexpectedly

expression:

• hurriedly; in haste; in a rush; quickly

noun / ~する noun:

• death in battle; killed in action

noun / ~する noun:

• cheering in chorus; saying in unison

expression:

• in either case; in all cases

noun:

• in session; in progress; under way; open

expression:

• after all; in the end; in short

~と adverb:

• in a hurry; hastily; in feverish haste - onomatopoeia

noun:

• changes in demographics; movements in population characteristics

noun / ~の noun:

• in one's lifetime; (while) in life

noun:

• decline in public favor; fall in popularity - four character idiom

noun:

• bamboo screen still in place in autumn - obscure term

expression:

• in no time; in a flash - abbreviation ➜ 間髪を入れず【かんはつをいれず】