noun:

• (New Year's) greetings

noun:

• sansevieria (esp. mother-in-law's tongue, Sansevieria trifasciata); sanseveria - From Latin

noun:

• period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)

noun:

• color tag (children's game) ➜ 鬼ごっこ

noun:

• (lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)

noun:

• stage of ennui (esp. in one's married life); period of lassitude; lethargic period; rut

noun:

• sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
• rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• flute used to lure green pheasants (imitates the pheasant's song) - obscure term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to strain (one's ears, eyes); to prick up (one's ears)

noun:

• (lawyer's) client

noun:

• stomach (esp. a pig's stomach or a cow's rumen); pork stomach - perhaps from the English word "gut" - Food term

expression:

• refraining from offering the (New Year's) greetings during the period of mourning - four character idiom

expression:

• seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon) ➜ 秋の七草

noun:

• Japanese skimmia (Skimmia japonica, esp. S. j. var. japonica)

noun:

• (company's) initiation or welcoming ceremony

noun:

• fur (on one's tongue)

noun / ~する noun:

• reconciliation (with one's spouse, adopted child, etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• (for one's stomach) to rumble ➜ 腹の虫が鳴く【はらのむしがなく】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to panic (from the flu panics of late 2000's and early 2010's); to act frantically; to act bizarrely - slang ➜ タミフル

noun:

• Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to unmask (someone's true nature) - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• looking on with folded arms (with one's hands in one's sleeves); remaining a passive onlooker - four character idiom

noun:

• lending rights (for copyrighted works under Japan's copyright law)

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to serve (by a superior's side) ［候ふ］ - archaism

auxiliary verb / yodan ~ふ verb (archaic):

• to be - auxiliary used in place of ある after で or に when forming a copula - archaism - polite language
• to do - auxiliary used in place of ます after a -masu stem - archaism - polite language

noun:

• Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)