noun:

• souvenir from the mountains

adverb:

• from the start
• not at all - with negative verb

noun:

• miso from the Kamakura era - obscure term

noun:

• person from the Kansai region ➜ 関西

noun:

• mainlander; person from the mainland

noun:

• cuttings (e.g. from boring)

noun / ~する noun:

• disembarkation (esp. from aircraft); deplaning

expression:

• from head to toe

noun:

• land distant from the capital

noun / ~する noun:

• receiving; reception; getting; being given - humble language
• eating; drinking; having - humble language

expression:

• please; please do for me - also used after -te forms - familiar language - female language - usually written using kana alone

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type - colloquialism ➜ つんつん・でれでれ

noun:

• being able to hear everything (esp. when one was not intended to)

expression / adjective:

• knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things ➜ 要領がいい【ようりょうがいい】

expression:

• room to breathe (usually in the negative as "no room to breathe") ➜ 立錐の余地もない

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be shameless; to have a lot of nerve; to have nerves of steel; to have hair on one's heart [literal] - idiom

noun:

• substitution
• material
• price
• margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something
• shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; ~19.83 m.sq.) - archaism ➜ 反【たん】

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

expression:

• Don't worry about it; There is nothing to fear; There is no need for anxiety; Everything is under control

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

adverb / adjectival noun:

• very; considerably; easily; readily; fairly; quite; highly; rather

adverb:

• by no means; not readily - with a verb in the negative

noun:

• middle; half-way point

~の noun:

• excellent; wonderful; very good

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to make up a shortfall; to cover a shortage; to compensate for a shortage; to fill a gap

interjection:

• heigh-hoh; heave-ho
• hold on!; just a minute
• used as a meaningless word in a song for rhythm