noun:

• artificially flooded salt farm above the high-tide mark ➜ 入り浜
• captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones ➜ 上げ石

expression / adverb:

• indiscriminately; without consideration; irrespective of the occasion; paying no attention to the feelings or expectations of those nearby

noun:

• One Village One Product movement; OVOP; campaign to boost the countryside by promoting the special products of local areas

expression:

• function follows form; the outside shapes the inside; belief comes from solemnity (i.e. from seeing an ornate temple) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• player's career; one's career in sport; one's career as an athlete - four character idiom

noun:

• Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to capture all the popularity; to steal the show; to upstage

noun:

• awareness of the minds of others (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term

noun:

• heaven of enjoying emanations; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• list of names of the dead
• Book of Souls (in the Yasukuni Shrine)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the game in one's hands; to hold the key to victory

noun:

• smoke of powder and hail of bullets; (in) the thick of the raging battle - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get the hang of; to learn the secret to

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

expression:

• when it's important; when it comes to the crunch; when push comes to shove; when it comes to the point; in one's hour of need; at the critical moment ➜ いざ

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fall in love at first sight
• to see for the first time; to meet for the first time - archaism
• to have sexual relations for the first time - archaism

noun:

• offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering ➜ 鏡餅

noun:

• number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation

noun:

• semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

noun:

• compromised shaku (compromise between the Kyouhou shaku and the Matajirou shaku; approx. 30.3 cm) - archaism

ichidan verb:

• to have become worn
• to be used to the ways of the world