noun:

• leap up from the initial charge in order to surprise the opponent - Sumo term

noun:

• husband being henpecked; house where the wife is the boss; petticoat government - four character idiom

noun:

• rushing to get on the train (bus, etc.) before the door closes

noun:

• kanji radical 35 when at the bottom (as in the character for summer)

expression:

• he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin - proverb

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• revitalizing treatment that stimulates the organs or the meridians (in Chinese medicine)

noun:

• the first time in the year that one wears an awase kimono ➜ 袷

noun:

• period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform ➜ 大化の改新

noun:

• pavilion housing the empress's reception hall (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 七殿・十七殿

noun:

• internal sense ➜ 外官【がいかん】
• public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 外官【げかん】

noun:

• Struthioniformes; order comprising the ratites (sometimes spec. only the ostriches)

noun:

• forced labor imposed by the government (e.g. under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• being out of time; passing the deadline
• time-out

noun:

• twelfth lunar month; 12th month of the lunar calendar ➜ 師走

noun:

• opposite lane; oncoming lane; opposite side of the road

noun:

• Bantu language (of the Bantu language family) ➜ バンツー諸語

noun:

• mountain stream; the water of a mountain stream

adverb:

• calling sound of the lesser cuckoo - obscure term ➜ 時鳥

noun:

• lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

noun:

• opposite lane; oncoming lane; opposite side of the road ➜ 対向車線【たいこうしゃせん】

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun:

• direction; way - also ほう
• person; lady; gentleman - honorific language

noun / suffix noun:

• method of; manner of; way of

suffix noun:

• care of ...
• person in charge of ... - also がた
• side (e.g. "on my mother's side") - also がた

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to handle well; to handle deftly
• to deal with; to manage; to settle; to sort; to process
• to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.); to cut and trim (fish)
• to sell out (completely); to dispose of (all stock)
• to untangle; to disentangle; to part; to arrange (e.g. the hem of a kimono)

noun:

• lapis lazuli
• lapis lazuli (color) - abbreviation ➜ 瑠璃色
• beryl - abbreviation ➜ 吠瑠璃
• mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail) - abbreviation ➜ 小瑠璃・大瑠璃・瑠璃鶲
• glass - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory