noun:

• Wallace's line (hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions)

noun:

• (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto)
• the centre or seat (of) (center)
• (government) office

expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]

noun:

• torture in which the victim is bound and placed in a tub of snakes

noun:

• shiku-kaisei city planning; city renewal that occurred in the Taisho and Meiji eras

noun:

• Delhi Dynasties; the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi dynasties of India ➜ デリースルタン朝

noun:

• redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zillii, fish of the family Cichlidae found in Africa and Eurasia)

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

noun:

• the vertical; height
• front-to-back; length
• north-to-south

noun / ~の noun:

• vertical (relationship); hierarchy

noun:

• (weaving) warp ➜ 経糸【たていと】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire

noun:

• ozeki wrestler's attempt to reach the rank of yokozuna; being eligible for promotion to yokozuna - Sumo term ➜ 横綱【よこづな】・大関【おおぜき】

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving a decision to someone else (often of a meal to be selected by the chef) ➜ 任せる・任せる

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be blown inside out (of an umbrella); to become (the shape of) a sake cup [literal] - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cut off a finger (as an act of apology) ➜ 指詰め
• to catch one's finger (in a door, etc.) - Kansai dialect

godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be mutually bitter; to argue together; to quarrel
• to resent and bemoan

ichidan verb:

• to blend; to mix thoroughly and evenly ➜ 馴染む
• to make fit in; to domesticate

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to Tokyo
• returning to the capital - orig. meaning

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to hit the bottom; to bottom out

noun:

• good time to take a picture; photo opportunity - From English "shutter chance"

godan ~う verb:

• to lie on one's stomach; to sleep while lying on one's stomach; to crawl on the ground; to sprawl

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星【みなみじゅうじせい】

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest while the paddies are still covered with snow - four character idiom

noun:

• exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala - obscure term
• platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern

noun / ~する noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist) - slang