expression:

• come!; imperative form of the verb "kuru" ("to come"), expressing a command or strong request ➜ 来る【くる】

noun:

• taking the entrance examination for a school without regard for one's chances of passing

noun:

• a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies; a question of who is responsible (to blame) - four character idiom

noun:

• pigeon seen on the morning of the New Year (e.g. as one is going to the shrine or temple for the New Year prayers)

noun:

• enshrinement of two or more deities in one building of a shrine; shrine building dedicated to two or more deities

noun:

• tongue
• tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)

noun:

• sense of language
• feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance

noun / ~する noun:

• cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)

noun:

• end of a road; end of a street

noun:

• being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein - four character idiom

noun:

• being somewhat (half) joking; half seriously; half in jest; in a jocular vein - four character idiom

noun:

• tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

noun:

• wedding ring; wedding band

noun:

• liquid seal; liquid ring

noun:

• outer ring; outer loop

noun:

• cyclic compound; ring compound - Chemistry term

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

noun / ~する noun:

• starting a business
• opening a store (for the day)

noun / ~する noun:

• moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; transition
• metastasis; spread - Medicine term
• transition (e.g phase transition) - Physics term ➜ 相転移
• transfer (of learning)
• transference (in psychoanalysis)

noun:

• school of western-inspired Japanese drama which developed towards the end of the Meiji period; shingeki; new-drama (movement)

noun:

• Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE) ［ないだいじん］
• Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE)

noun:

• Little New Year (festival held on January 15th); 14th-16th days of the first month of the year; Koshogatsu

noun:

• person whose physical suitability for conscription in the former Japanese military could not be determined in that year (e.g. due to illness)