noun:

• tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring
• tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast

noun:

• rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt, used for preparing sushi; sushi rice - Food term

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; from childhood
• bright and early; early in the morning

noun:

• starting point for an ascent (mountain, stairs, etc.); base (of mountain, etc.) - esp. 上 for stairs, 登 for mountain

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tender sentiments; being overcome with emotions; having a tender feeling (for a person) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to settle (a matter) for the time being; to complete the first stage (of something)

noun:

• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

noun:

• the privy purse; the money used for private purposes by the members of the Imperial family

noun:

• small okurigana used with kanbun
• small kana used for diphthongs (ya, yo, yu, i, etc.)

noun:

• "day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings) ➜ 暦注

noun:

• tachibana tree west of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 紫宸殿・左近の桜

noun:

• cherry tree east of the southern stairs of the Hall for State Ceremonies (in Heian Palace) ➜ 右近の橘・紫宸殿

noun:

• lay ancestral hall; hall on temple grounds for holding mortuary tablets of lay parishioners
• small shrine

expression:

• unable to find adequate words (e.g. to express feelings); being at a loss for words

noun:

• day of national humiliation (used in China for certain anniversaries of incidents where Japan humiliated China)

noun:

• taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
• subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)

godan ~す verb:

• to knock down the price of
• to make a successful bid (for an article); to buy at auction

noun:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

noun / ~する noun:

• searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage, e.g. dating, courtship, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 結婚活動

noun:

• word for word; one word - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to desire
• to wish for; to expect
• to see; to command (a view of)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for
• to indulge in; to devour greedily

adjectival noun / noun:

• too many; too much; excessive; superfluous; superabundant; extra; spare; surplus - often as 余計に

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• unnecessary; needless; uncalled-for; otiose

adverb:

• abundantly; excessively; needlessly; all the more