noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• purveyor (esp. to the government, Imperial Household, etc.)

noun:

• the three most important cities (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)

noun / ~の noun:

• heliotropism; actinotropism; disposition (in flowers) to turn toward the sun; phototropism ➜ 背日性

noun:

• letters-to-the-editor column; readers' section
• space for correspondence, messages, etc.

noun:

• proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker, i. e., kore, koko, kochira) - Linguistics term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun:

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stop the opponent by pressing one's head into his chest - Sumo term

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

noun:

• being unable to make up one's mind; sitting on the fence - four character idiom ➜ 首鼠

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• to have the memory of having done something oneself (subordinate phrase) ➜ 身に覚えがある

noun:

• ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan - obscure term

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 逢う魔が時

noun:

• fashionable hairstyle, particularly to attract members of the opposite sex

adverb / ~する noun:

• shrill whistling sound - onomatopoeia
• reddening or brightening slightly
• rush of blood to the head

noun:

• sending food to someone's house on the night of a wake

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to pierce something all the way through (with a lance, arrow, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint ➜ 陽動作戦

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the past tense - polite language - archaism ➜ ませんでした

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

expression:

• suffix used to negate a verb in the non-past tense - Kansai dialect ➜ ない

interjection:

• humph; hmph

expression:

• having the luck to escape trouble (your behaviour has landed you in)

noun:

• manas (defiled mental consciousness, which gives rise to the perception of self) - Buddhism term ➜ 末那識