interjection:

• knock on wood; touch wood - spoken to ward off misfortune

adverb:

• just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that - after past tense of verb

noun:

• Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to capture all the popularity; to steal the show; to upstage

noun:

• awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the game in one's hands; to hold the key to victory

noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get the hang of; to learn the secret to

expression:

• when it's important; when it comes to the crunch; when push comes to shove; when it comes to the point; in one's hour of need; at the critical moment ➜ いざ

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fall in love at first sight
• to see for the first time; to meet for the first time - archaism
• to have sexual relations for the first time - archaism

noun:

• germ rice; half-milled rice; semi-polished rice; rice with the germ; rice polished to remove the bran but not the germ; milled rice with embryo buds - Food term

noun:

• semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

noun:

• compromised shaku (compromise between the Kyouhou shaku and the Matajirou shaku; approx. 30.3 cm) - archaism

ichidan verb:

• to have become worn
• to be used to the ways of the world

noun:

• supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to the Earth

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to duff (golf); to sclaff; to hit the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term ➜ ダフ

noun:

• number of events (e.g. accidents, crimes, meetings, housing starts, hits on a web page)

conjunction / expression:

• to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that

noun:

• gobang (game played on go board involving lining up stones); gomoku; Five in a Row

noun:

• day on which many companies hold shareholders meetings (to limit disruption by would-be blackmailers)