noun:

• making the numbers balance; fixing the numbers; number-juggling; making up the numbers (e.g. to form a majority); taking tally; number-crunching

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this ➜ あんな・そんな・どんな

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

noun:

• hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

expression / ichidan verb:

• to come to the point; to touch on the point; to address the main points

noun:

• a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom

noun:

• the tip of a spear; the edge at the very tip of a sword

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun / prefix:

• previous; prior; former; first; earlier; some time ago; preceding
• point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle
• head (of a line); front
• ahead; the other side
• the future; hereafter
• destination
• the other party

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

noun:

• cabinetwork; joinery - usu. 指(し)物
• hair ornament; hairpin - often 挿(し)物
• colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period - archaism

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; completing the first stage (of the work)

noun:

• one paragraph

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month

noun:

• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
• Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido ➜ 和人地

noun:

• this way; here ［こなた］ ➜ こちら
• the person in question; he; she; him; her ［こなた］
• since (a time in the past); prior to (a time in the future) ［こなた］

pronoun:

• me ［こなた］
• you

expression:

• one becomes sleepy when one's stomach is full; full stomach, sleepy head; when the skin of the belly is extended, the skin of the eyes droops [literal] - proverb

noun:

• nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun:

• the same country; the same province; the said country

noun:

• building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. ➜ 大内裏
• martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

suffix:

• particularly; especially
• indicates the number of horses or oxen drawing a carriage; indicates the number of oars on a boat
• indicates the number of movies, plays, etc. comprising a single program; indicates the number of items or methods used

noun:

• dirt mound
• dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period