noun:

• stopping a sword stroke between one's bare hands ➜ 白刃取り【しらはどり】

noun:

• pharmacy right outside a doctor's office or hospital

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to one's base (after a fly ball) - Baseball term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.)
• to carry out; to perform; to lead (a life)
• to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

adverb / ~の noun:

• one by one; one each; one at a time ➜ ずつ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be bewitched by a fox; to be confused - idiom

noun:

• axe murder incident (Aug. 18, 1976); poplar tree incident; killing of two American army officers by North Korean soldiers in the DMZ

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be slightly inferior; to be a degree worse
• to give an inch; to make a concession; to concede a point

~の noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• far away; distant; at a distance; distant place; by far

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun:

• launching; launch
• end (of a theatrical run, etc.)
• closing party (e.g. a theater show); cast party; party to celebrate successful completion of a project ➜ 打ち上げ会【うちあげかい】

expression:

• when about to go back
• on the way back; on the way home

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to tread on thin ice; to go out on a limb; to walk a tightrope; to take risks; to cross a dangerous bridge [literal]

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

noun:

• western part; the west (of a region)
• the West (United States)

noun:

• lining a kimono with the same material as the kimono itself

noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• at the very beginning of a book; The book opens with ... - four character idiom

expression:

• just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out - four character idiom

~の noun:

• the aforementioned; the said; (man, incident, etc.) in question; the above-mentioned; the aforesaid
• the usual

adjectival noun / adverb / noun / ~の noun:

• amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic)
• full
• one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat

adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• fully; to capacity - usually written using kana alone
• a lot; much - usually written using kana alone

suffix noun / adverbial noun:

• all of ...; the entire ... - usually written using kana alone

conjunction / particle:

• indicates supposition; if ... then; when; after

particle:

• (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation - usu. ったら