noun / ~する noun:

• combining the working parts of two or more broken machines to make one functioning machine
• manufacturing one part out of multiple different parts

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a class; studying a subject; completing a course

noun / ~の noun:

• aboard a vehicle; in a car; on a train

noun:

• a coupler; a splice; a successor; an heir

noun:

• yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe) ➜ 湯帷子

noun:

• turning another away at the gate or front door; refusing to receive a caller

noun:

• drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke
• doing something suddenly, without warning

noun / ~する noun:

• mistake; blunder; bungle; goof
• mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles - original meaning - Mahjong term

noun:

• senior manager; director; person below the department head with responsibility for a particular area

noun:

• gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater) ➜ 義太夫

expression:

• much ado about nothing; The mountains have brought forth a mouse (Aesop)

noun:

• stealthy steps
• spurt to overtake a leading horse just before the finish line

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• giving off a foul odor; the air being heavy with an offensive smell - four character idiom

noun:

• a good chance coming along; the time has come (for, to, when...); opportunity knocking - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

noun:

• creeper (plant that grows along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)

counter:

• counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system) - archaism

expression:

• there is no comparison between the two; it's not a same-day discussion [literal] - proverb

noun:

• archer's glove (with a groove for pulling the string)

noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

noun:

• curtain separating a central room from the aisles around it (in palatial-style architecture) ➜ 母屋【もや】・庇

noun:

• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class) - Kansai dialect ➜ 体育座り

expression / noun:

• a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon