adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• in tufts; tufty; bushy; thick; luxuriant

noun:

• tea-drinking companion; crony; buddy
• spouse married late in life for companionship

noun:

• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

noun:

• scale (i.e. hard water coating in a kettle, etc.); fur

noun:

• vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions ➜ 合わせ酢

noun:

• overnight stay when traveling (travelling) ➜ 旅寝
• sleeping on grass in an open field

noun:

• female weaver
• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae ［しょくじょ］ - Astronomy term ➜ 織女星【しょくじょせい】

noun:

• dancing girl (end of the Heian period) - archaism
• prostitute
• tempo in gagaku ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

noun / ~の noun:

• right in the center (centre) - colloquialism

noun:

• making replacements for defensive purposes in the late inning of a game - Baseball term

noun:

• activist (in a political movement); crusader (e.g. for women's rights)

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the first round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the second round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the third round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• someone with hair combed in stripes across their bald spot - from "barcode head"

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• being full of vitality (energy); vigorous and in high spirits - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• billing and cooing; holding an intimate, long-winded conversation in whispers - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking off short (in one's speech); rendered speechless for a moment - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun:

• lingering recession; an economy that lingers in the doldrums after bottoming out - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• passing away peacefully to be reborn in Paradise through invocation of Amitabha - four character idiom