noun:

• dried citrus peel (esp. of a satsuma mandarin) used as seasoning and in traditional Chinese medicine; chenpi ➜ 蜜柑

noun:

• Dutch disease; decline in a country's manufacturing sector owing to increased exploitation of natural resources - Business term

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

noun:

• girl who has led a sheltered life; pet daughter; naive girl; ingénue
• wooden block puzzle; Daughter in the Box; Klotski

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to bow (in great numbers) to a greater authority; to be drawn (en masse) to something attractive; even the plants yield [literal] - idiom

noun:

• at the outset; at the very beginning; in the first place; to begin (start) with; first and foremost - four character idiom

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• with a snap; with a bang; with a plonk; with a click - onomatopoeia ➜ ぱたり
• suddenly; all of a sudden - onomatopoeia ➜ ぱたり

noun:

• launching; launch
• end (of a theatrical run, etc.)
• closing party (e.g. a theater show); cast party; party to celebrate successful completion of a project ➜ 打ち上げ会【うちあげかい】

noun:

• deciding match (in a competition for a cup (pennant))

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜に烏

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜の烏

noun:

• frog in a well; "someone with a narrow perspective" [figurative]

noun:

• hill in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)

noun:

• Eighth Route Army; 18th Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China

expression:

• a jewel in a dunghill

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to say incorrectly; to use the wrong words; to make a slip of the tongue
• to forget to say; to miss one's chance to say

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

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

noun:

• goods loaded in the afternoon for delivery the following morning

noun:

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

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

noun:

• traveling inspectors sent by the Shogun in the Edo period

noun:

• football (soccer) - humorous term - slang
• kick to the groin; kneeing in the testicles - vulgar - slang

expression:

• at the last moment; this late in the game ➜ この期【このご】