noun:

• winning on a tile robbed from another player's kong - Mahjong term ➜ 加槓【かカン】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break the seal

expression / noun:

• housing for the elderly with home-care services provided

noun:

• the next year

noun:

• the four kinds of demons that make trouble for sentient beings - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩魔・陰魔・死魔・天魔

noun:

• study of the calendar; way of the calendar - archaism ➜ 暦学

noun:

• single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服【げんぶく】・初冠【ういこうぶり】

noun:

• person in charge of crowning the boy at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism

noun:

• the smaller waves

noun:

• registered mail for the purpose of sending money

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to agree on; to agree about

expression:

• take the opportunity to (do something else) ➜ 事の序で

noun:

• moon-viewing on either the night of the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar or on the night of the 13th day of the 9th month of the lunisolar calendar, but not both nights

noun:

• futon or cloth attached to the kotatsu's frame; cover for kotatsu

expression:

• that being the case; in that case; if that's how it's going to go

noun:

• the five sense organs

noun / adjectival noun:

• the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned - four character idiom

noun:

• the five brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); the five light cards; the five hikari cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• stage left (on a noh stage), in front of the chorus ➜ 地謡座

noun:

• sound of the autumn wind; sound of the fall wind

noun:

• day on which many companies hold shareholders meetings (to limit disruption by would-be blackmailers)

expression:

• raining on and off

noun:

• bones of the feet - obscure term
• the strength of one's feet

particle:

• particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.) - at sentence-end ➜ もがな
• emphatic particle - at sentence-end - colloquialism
• particle adding uncertainty - often associated with an interrogative