expression / adjective:

• not having enough workers; being understaffed; being undermanned - idiom
• having nothing one can do about something; having no options - idiom

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

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; the blue sea turns into a mulberry field [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• art project which is done in place of a graduation thesis at a college of arts ➜ 卒制

noun:

• place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine

noun:

• power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice) - Law term

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:

• 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

noun / ~する noun:

• regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on

conjunction:

• after all; because - colloquialism
• but - colloquialism

particle:

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

noun:

• yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe) ➜ 湯帷子

adjectival noun / noun:

• thick; dense; rich (as in taste or content); deep (colour); strong (smell, scent)
• crowded

noun / adjectival noun:

• regret

noun:

• flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart, usu. served as yakitori

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• arrogance; audacity; (behaving) outrageously as though there were no one around; insolence; defiance; overbearing - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• trivial matter; cinch; easy as pie; piece of cake; child's play

noun:

• before breakfast - orig. meaning

noun:

• true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)

noun:

• popularly accepted "on" reading of a kanji (as opposed to those derived from Chinese)

noun:

• a sense of release (as if one had wings and were riding on air) - four character idiom

noun:

• secondary substantive (inflectable word or phrase that acts as an uninflectable within a sentence) - Linguistics term

expression / noun:

• casting off the drudgery of everyday life and doing as one pleases; kicking back

noun:

• eight-legged table (used as a stand for religious offerings, etc.) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• buying a large amount (esp. of collectible items aimed at kids, such as manga) - colloquialism

noun:

• polite Japanese as used by young part-time employees in restaurants, etc. - derogatory term ➜ バイト・敬語

noun:

• joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)