noun:

• playing shogi with a handicap of the rook and bishop
• participating in a contest while missing key players, pieces, etc.

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)

expression:

• follow the person to your right (command to form a line)
• following someone's example; imitating someone; following suit

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

noun:

• patriot devoted to the salvation of his country

noun / ~する noun:

• falling of the curtain; coming to an end

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (the doors to an event, etc.) ➜ 閉場
• inauguration

noun / ~する noun:

• leaning to the left
• leftist tendency; becoming radical ➜ 右傾

noun / ~する noun:

• emperor's return to the imperial palace Antonym: 出御

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to become luminous at dawn (esp. the sky)

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to the service of one's master

noun:

• lacking the talent to do anything but eat - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to introduce a bill or measure

noun / ~する noun:

• climbing to a high spot; ascending the throne

noun:

• heavy outfit designed to keep out the cold

noun:

• monument to the faithful who died in battle

noun:

• monument to the faithful who died in battle

noun:

• knife attached to the sheath of a sword

noun:

• place with warmer weather to spend the winter

noun:

• the good fortune to have been born male

noun:

• soaked to the skin; like a drowned rat

noun / ~する noun:

• efflorescence; loss of crystallization water to the air - Chemistry term

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to make symbolic signs (gestures) with the fingers

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to strike at the root of an evil