expression:

• where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes

adverb:

• within the year; before the year is out

expression / ichidan verb:

• to admit fault; to admit one is wrong

expression / adjective:

• being driven into a corner; having no way out; being caught between a rock and a hard place

expression:

• to make a personal judgment on a problem with little insight; to look at the sky through a tube (Zhuangzi) [literal] ➜ 管窺【かんき】

noun:

• stubble; unshaven face; beard one has because one is too lazy to shave; 5-o'clock shadow

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• consumption of goods and services by young working adults who live at home, with their basic living expenses covered by their parents; nest-dweller consumption [literal]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take a commission; to take a cut; to take a piece of the action; to take a kickback - colloquialism

noun:

• (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

noun:

• Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia
• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia

noun:

• catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen - Baseball term
• tank (character that soaks up damage for the rest of the party in an MMORPG)

noun:

• social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)

noun:

• person in his or her prime; man in his prime; woman in her prime

expression:

• like the young man who tried to walk like the Kantan people, gave up, and forgot how to walk

noun:

• weather; look of the sky
• situation; turn of affairs; signs; way the wind is blowing

noun / adjectival noun / adverb:

• one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply - four character idiom

noun:

• dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun:

• the eight early Japanese Buddhist sects - abbreviation ➜ 八宗
• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian ➜ 入唐八家

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Yamaraja (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead) - honorific language - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• teacher; master; doctor - honorific language

suffix:

• with names of teachers, etc. as an honorific - honorific language

noun:

• previous existence ［せんじょう］ - archaism ➜ 前生

conjunction:

• after all; because - colloquialism
• but - colloquialism

particle:

• even
• too; as well; also
• they say; I hear; you mean