noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant)
• paper made from the fibre of this plant - abbreviation ➜ 雁皮紙

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

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

noun:

• prime of life; era of national prosperity

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun:

• celebration of the completion of a temple or shrine's construction

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
• to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
• to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
• to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
• to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
• to download; to copy from a computer to another medium - IT term
• to make someone swoon (judo) - Martial Arts term
• to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
• to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

noun:

• eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring - four character idiom

noun:

• argument from morality (for the existence of God) ➜ 神の存在証明

noun:

• lacquer made from the sap of Acanthopanax sciadophylloides ➜ 漉油

noun:

• type of public bath from the Edo period

noun / ~の noun:

• security-related; from the stand-point of safety

noun:

• wind coming from the top of a mountain ➜ 山颪【やまおろし】

noun / expression:

• schadenfreude; pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others - short for 他人の不幸で今日も飯がうまい - vulgar - slang - abbreviation

noun:

• three sun (ca. 9.1 cm) ➜ 寸【すん】
• something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)
• stall-keeper; huckster; hawker ➜ 的屋
• prostitute of the lowest rank - archaism

noun:

• western citadel; west wing of the Edo castle (where the heir apparent or retired shogun would live) ➜ 江戸城

noun:

• Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth); earthshine

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• the hill back of one's home; hill back from the seashore

noun:

• genuine product; official product; accessory product from the manufacturer of the main product - IT term

noun:

• transcendent world; world outside of the material world; somewhere removed from the world

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

noun:

• bronze wind bells hanging from eaves of temple towers or halls (esp. four corners) - archaism
• wind bell; wind chimes - archaism

noun:

• the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect - obscure term