noun:

• visiting soldiers at the front to provide comfort; visit to (gift for) persons hard at work as a sign of support - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

noun:

• string tied to the chest of one's kimono or haori
• childhood (period where one would wear such a string) - archaism

noun:

• white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae)
• Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)

noun:

• snow boots - esp. 雪靴
• yuki-gutsu; traditional Japanese snow boots made of straw - esp. 雪沓

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• at the height of one's power or influence; at the peak of one's popularity

noun:

• beginning of the year
• the oldest person ［としがしら］

noun:

• role of the villain; the bad guy

noun:

• the calamity of being killed by the sword

noun:

• blister (on the sole of the foot); corn

noun / ~する noun:

• indignant lamentation over the evils of the times - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• indignant lamentation over the evils of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• striking with the back of the sword

noun:

• sending off the spirits of the dead

noun:

• (in) the shape of the character hachi (eight)

noun:

• sword inscribed with the name of the swordsmith

noun:

• industrial reserve force
• the ranks of the unemployed

noun:

• temple built at the order of the emperor

noun:

• coalition of the Socialist Party and the Komeito

noun:

• the whole world; south of the Big Dipper - archaism

noun:

• something of the same size
• the said university - abbr. of 同大学

noun:

• The Confucian Analects and the Discourses of Mencius

noun:

• bales forming the outer rim of the ring - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• arrival of the wrestlers to the tournament venue - Sumo term

noun:

• the barbarians beyond the borders of old China - four character idiom