noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

noun:

• something of the same size
• the said university - abbr. of 同大学

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• dash at the beginning of a short-distance race - From English "start dash"
• charging ahead at full strength from the beginning

noun:

• service at the head office; work at the home office ➜ 詰め【つめ】

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term ➜ 貴輪時代

noun:

• era at the end of 1970s dominated by grand champion Wajima and ozeki Takanohana - Sumo term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to complete most of something; to take a concrete shape; for the most important parts to be done; the nose and eyes are in place [literal] - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to turn oneself into; to transform oneself into
• to disguise oneself as
• to change radically; to metamorphose
• to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• agreement; same opinion; same feeling; sympathy; concurrence

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence

noun:

• same temperament; same turn of mind

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

noun:

• the same event; no change (on the stock market)

noun:

• the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter - archaism

prefix:

• the same; the said; ibid.

noun:

• this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker); this direction ➜ 何方【どちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• here (place close to the speaker or where the speaker is)
• this one (something physically close to the speaker)

pronoun:

• I; me; we; us
• this person (someone physically close to the speaker and of equal or higher status)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• at that time; in those days

suffix:

• apiece; each - also written as 宛
• at a time; piecemeal

adverb:

• stepwise; one step at a time

ichidan verb:

• to be able to drink
• to be worth drinking

noun:

• statue of the birth of Buddha (right hand pointing at the heavens, left hand pointing at the earth) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳