noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

noun:

• make-or-break game in a go or shogi tournament
• ozeki-ranked wrestler being in danger of losing his rank if he fails to win 8 or more bouts in a 15-day tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• person who has a driving licence but little or no experience actually driving (license) - From English "paper driver"

noun:

• structure; construction; appearance
• posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance
• readiness; determination; preparedness
• kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji) - e.g. 門

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low

noun:

• the whole reel; the whole volume; the complete set

noun:

• the eight directions; the whole land; the whole world

noun:

• the last days; the final years; the last generation

noun:

• the life of the people; the people's living

noun:

• the shogunate period; the days of the shogunate regime - four character idiom

noun:

• books related to the calendar; the calendar; the almanac ➜ 暦

~の noun / noun:

• along the road; at the side of the road

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to live; to exist
• to make a living; to subsist
• to be in effect; to be in use; to function
• to come to life; to be enlivened
• to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

noun:

• joint; knuckle
• tune; melody
• knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
• part; notable characteristic ➜ 思い当たるふしがある

noun / ~する noun:

• loss (of weight or volume, e.g. in transit); ullage; outage
• decrease (in value); reduction

noun / ~する noun:

• (historical, in China) abdication by an emperor in favor (favour) of a more virtuous successor

noun / ~する noun:

• separating words in Japanese with spaces (e.g. in kana-only books for children) - Linguistics term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck

noun:

• festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

noun:

• Protectorate General of Annam; Han-period Chinese office established in Hanoi in 622 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• sex establishment in which staff dress in costumes (schoolgirl, nurse, etc.) - From English "image club"

noun / ~する noun:

• taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group - four character idiom

expression:

• all those interested (in the matter); all those willing; (from) all of us; (from) everyone concerned - four character idiom

noun:

• family affairs; family business
• steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)