expression:

• in front of your nose; right next to you
• tip of one's nose

noun / ~の noun:

• director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryo system); chief - archaism ➜ 四等官

noun:

• day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer ➜ 丑の日

noun:

• Sincerely yours (with the nuance of "please excuse the brevity of this letter")

noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• receiving; welcoming; going to meet - polite language ➜ 迎え

noun:

• final call; call of fate; approach of death

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn the rudder of a ship; to change direction (of policy, etc.)

noun:

• (ornamental) tip of a scabbard ［鐺・璫・小尻］
• bottom of a bargeboard or cantilever ［鐺・璫・木尻］

noun:

• fragmentary remains of a large set of writings; the odd volume; a few pages ➜ 端本

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun:

• eighteen centers of Buddhist learning (of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region) ➜ 浄土宗・関東

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• small statue of Shoki the Plague-Queller (placed on the overhang of traditional houses) ➜ 鍾馗

noun:

• food of the mountains (wild game, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc.); fruits of the land ➜ 海幸

noun:

• chanting sutras in front of a shoryodana (of a monk during the Bon Festival) ➜ 精霊棚【しょうりょうだな】

noun:

• winning hand composed of two sets of two identical chows plus a pair - Mahjong term ➜ 一盃口【イーペーコー】

noun:

• paying for the purchase (expense) out of one's own pocket; being responsible for the payment of one's share of the purchase price, expense, etc. - four character idiom

noun:

• wife; Mrs; madam ［ふじん・はしかし］ - honorific language
• wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) ［ふじん］ - archaism
• consort of the emperor ［ふじん・ぶにん］ - archaism

adjective:

• stinking; smelly
• suspicious; fishy
• clumsy; unskilled

suffix / adjective:

• smelling of
• looking like; appearing like; smacking of; -ish

noun:

• change of pace; change of mood; (mental) break (e.g. going for a walk); refreshment - four character idiom

noun:

• old shop; shop of long standing

~の noun:

• well-established; first of the kind; veteran

noun:

• soft fiberboard; soft fibreboard - senses 1 and 2 are originally from an abbreviation of "texture"
• cloth; fabric; material - often used in brand names
• tex; unit of linear mass density of fibres

noun / ~する noun:

• rebound
• relapse after a diet; regaining lost weight

noun:

• return of symptoms after withdrawal of medicine

noun:

• ghee (held to be the greatest of all flavours); "the ultimate truth of Buddhism" [figurative]; "nirvana" [figurative] - Buddhism term ➜ 五味

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

noun:

• stage of ennui (esp. in one's married life); period of lassitude; lethargic period; rut