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:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

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

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sell well; to sell out
• to be in order
• to be sociable; to be worldly and understanding

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show; to display; to flash
• to dangle (an offer) in front of; to hold out; to indirectly hint at; to intimate; to obliquely suggest; to allude to; to imply
• to send flurries (of snow, etc.)

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to let out; to utter; to produce; to emit; to give forth; to discharge
• to issue; to send; to give

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to leave; to depart
• to occur; to appear

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to shoot (an arrow or bullet); to fire

noun:

• Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

noun:

• crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road); going astray
• difference of opinion; misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement

noun:

• meat of a fish (e.g. tuna) that is dark red with blood, usu. coming from the parts close to the spine

noun:

• whitefin surgeonfish (Acanthurus albipectoralis, species of Western Pacific tang found on the Great Barrier Reef through the Coral Sea to Tonga)

noun:

• building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds) - archaism ➜ 武徳殿

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

expression:

• No Entry; No Trespassing; No Admittance; Off Limits; Keep Out; Keep Off - on a sign

~の noun / noun:

• off-limits; restricted; forbidden

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be evasive; to give an evasive answer
• to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate
• to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation
• to make do with

noun:

• (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom