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】

adverb / ~と adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

adverb:

• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

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

noun:

• six-year secondary school (type of school introduced in the 1998 revision of the Japanese School Education Law)

adjectival noun:

• proper

noun:

• propagandist; propaganda - abbreviation
• full time (staff); career (job title) (e.g. someone who has worked in the same area from the start)
• regular price; net price

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become used to the (ways of the) world; to become worldly or sophisticated

noun:

• Bunten exhibition; art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education (antecedent of the Nitten exhibition) - abbreviation ➜ 文部省美術展覧会【もんぶしょうびじゅつてんらんかい】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be factually incorrect; to differ from the actual facts; to not be the case

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group) ➜ 屯する
• to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to gather in large numbers (of people); to hang out (as a large group) - colloquialism ➜ 屯する【たむろする】
• to assemble (as a military unit or posse); to be quartered (in a particular location) - colloquialism ➜ 屯する【たむろする】

noun:

• the rise of the curtain; opening (of play) ➜ 幕開き
• beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; physical work
• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 力役【りきやく】

noun:

• eight consciousnesses (one for each of the five senses, consciousness of the mind, self-consciousness and store consciousness) - Buddhism term

noun:

• moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) ➜ 物質文化

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem

noun:

• pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji)
• way of reading (out loud)
• interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be angular; to jut out; to be pointed; to be sharp; to be jagged; to be rugged
• to be formal; to be stiff; to be ceremonious

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

noun:

• to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres
• square bearing block (at the top of a pillar) ➜ 枡形
• Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

noun:

• riding; ride
• spread (of paints)

suffix noun:

• -seater (e.g. two-seater)

noun:

• (getting into the) mood; (entering into the) spirit; energy; enthusiasm; rhythm; feeling - esp. ノリ. possibly from 気乗り - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• night express with sleeper cars (from the original color of the trains) (colour)

noun:

• fountain effect (theory that high sales in the basement of a department store lead to increased sales in the upper levels as well)