noun:

• first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
• initials (of one's name)

noun:

• holy mother; birth mother of a holy man (or woman)
• Virgin Mary

noun / ~する noun:

• overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel)

noun:

• store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)

noun:

• an unsettled course of action; (orders or laws) being revised often with no guiding principles - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• uncrowned; unawarded (esp. in spite of being shortlisted or nominated)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to get off; to abandon (a ship or vehicle)

noun / ~する noun:

• circumference; perimeter; outer tracks (in a loop or curve); outside work

noun:

• alveolar consonant; sound (e.g. n,t,d) where the tongue touches (or nearly touches) the ridge behind your front top teeth ➜ 歯茎

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hand down; to pass on (story or tradition)

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰

noun:

• poor village; our own (little or poor) village

noun:

• lucky person; someone who made a lot of money (e.g. gambling or on the stock market)
• skilled batter; batter on a hot streak - Baseball term
• accident faker; someone who jumps in front of cars on purpose to extort money
• barbershop

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• innateness; innate feature (or character, etc.)

expression:

• (following te-form verb) regardless of; whether (or not) - from いるようが ➜ ようが

expression:

• regardless of; whether (or not) - volitional form of verb + が ➜ が

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰・四有

noun:

• (nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive
• proper place to die
• dilemma; predicament; inescapable situation

expression:

• man proposes, God disposes; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate) [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb:

• squeezing something tightly; sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed - onomatopoeia
• criticizing someone severely; sound made by someone being criticized

noun:

• hug - colloquialism

noun:

• sautoir; long necklace (longer than opera-length), often with an ornament (tassel or pendant) at the end

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term

noun:

• seller of high-quality sake; (Meiji or Taisho era) brothel

noun:

• bulletproof; protection (or charm) against bullets

noun:

• transparent; plain (glass or glasses)