noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

temporal noun:

• now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game

noun:

• language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period ➜ ありんす・吉原言葉

noun:

• hakama fashioned in the style of the pantaloons worn by the Portuguese - From Portuguese "calção" ➜ 袴

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld) ➜ 黄泉国【よもつくに】

noun / ~の noun:

• half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary

noun / ~する noun:

• replacing the old with the new; the old giving way to the new - four character idiom

expression:

• if two ride upon a horse, one must sit behind; when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; two great rivals cannot coexist - proverb

expression:

• victory goes to the one who makes the first move; being quick to take action leads to victory; the early bird gets the worm - four character idiom

noun:

• east wind tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of east wind tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• south wind tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of south wind tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• west wind tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of west wind tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• north wind tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of north wind tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• exchange of blows; long rally

expression:

• something that comes too late and is useless; like a chrysanthemum prepared for the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum festival but that blooms only on the tenth ➜ 重陽

noun:

• little four winds; winning hand consisting of three kongs or pungs of winds and a pair of the fourth wind - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism - four character idiom

noun:

• lower leg bone (esp. the tibia and the fibula, but sometimes also including the patella)

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜【しちよう】

noun:

• lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to prosper; to flourish

expression:

• that being the case; in that case; if that's how it's going to go

noun:

• match where the umpire disqualifies the coach and one player after the player has done something dangerous (such as hit by pitch; to prevent retaliation by the opposing team) - Baseball term