noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• honorary white (non-white person, including the Japanese, that were given certain privileges during the apartheid regime of South Africa); honorary whites

noun:

• Premium Friday; government-backed campaign to allow workers to go home early the last Friday of the month - From English

noun:

• first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move
• forestalling; (seizing the) initiative ➜ 後手

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misplace; to put in the wrong place
• to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to sweep the slate clean; to start again from the beginning; to do it all over again

expression:

• (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; badgers of the same hole [literal] - idiom

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to load (with goods, cargo); to put on board; to stow aboard

godan ~う verb:

• to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up

noun:

• place to go; person to turn to or depend on; one's resort

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to get goosebumps; to have one's hair stand on end; to shudder

godan ~る verb:

• to tattle; to tell on; to inform a superior of someone's actions - colloquialism

noun:

• track meet (non-competitive driving on a race course); track day; track event

expression:

• towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic) ➜ 向ける

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to concur; to be the same (thought, opinion, etc.); to have the same way of doing

expression / noun:

• the crucial moment; the moment of truth; do-or-die situation; crucial juncture; crucial stage

noun:

• times and situations; the course of events of the times; a turn of Fortune's wheel - four character idiom

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) ➜ 文展【ぶんてん】

noun:

• little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept-secret place; hole-in-the-wall

noun:

• place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑

noun:

• northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

noun:

• Di people; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the north - derogatory term ➜ 北狄