expression / ichidan verb:

• to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change; to alter
• to mistake; to make a mistake
• to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise) ➜ たがえる・たがえる
• to dislocate (e.g. one's neck)

noun:

• the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927) ➜ 紀元節・四方拝・天長節

noun:

• retirement age
• years of service in a military rank before eligibility for promotion - archaism

noun:

• running fast; double time
• cantering - also 駈歩
• doing things in a hurry

noun:

• onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori) - polite language

noun:

• palmyra - abbreviation ➜ 多羅樹
• lusterleaf holly - abbreviation ➜ 多羅葉
• patra (silver incense dish placed in front of a Buddhist statue)

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean) - derogatory term

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dripping ink marks; a work of calligraphy being written in bold and vivid strokes - four character idiom

noun:

• summer greeting cards containing a lottery ticket, sold every year starting in June - sometimes かもめ～る

noun:

• invitation letter (e.g. document in support of a visa to enter Japan)

noun:

• bumpy texture of a material (esp. woven fabric) ➜ 烏帽子
• creases in an eboshi hat

noun:

• waza-ari (in judo, a half-point awarded for good but incomplete execution) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• marriage-oriented society (in which most people are married, usu. at a young age)

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

noun:

• corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 中門・寝殿造り

adverb / ~と adverb:

• tingling sensation (e.g. in a leg); feeling numb; painful tingle; throbbing - onomatopoeia
• noisily; ears ringing - onomatopoeia

expression / noun:

• going back and forth; changing scenery (theatre); fluctuation (e.g. in a market)

noun:

• mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)

noun:

• salad served in a glass, cup, hollowed-out tomato, etc. - From English "cup salad"

noun:

• green tea fired in hot pans after a short withering (common Chinese technique)