noun:

• the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year ➜ 厄年

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to go on a pub-crawl; to drink at a round of places

noun / ~する noun:

• promoting a product or service; appealing to consumers; solicitation (of business); pushing a product

noun / ~の noun:

• Brahman (priest of Hinduism, members of the highest caste) - From Sanskrit "brahmana"
• Brahmanism; priest of Brahmanism

noun / ~する noun:

• pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald
• leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

noun:

• creditor; lender; credit side (of the ledger) ➜ 借り方
• method of lending

noun:

• hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)

noun:

• compendium of laws; statute books; complete book of the Six Codes [literal]

noun:

• young of sardines; whitebait
• fry of the Japanese anchovy, eel, etc. ➜ 片口鰯・真鰯・鰻

noun:

• Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

noun:

• sensibilities (feelings, way of thinking) of the common people; popular sentiment - four character idiom

expression:

• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope

noun:

• seventh of January (lunar calendar) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• cytolysis; breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane

noun:

• recognition of an unborn child (for the purposes of claiming nationality)

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to take advantage of the troubled times (of an ambitious adventurer) - obscure term

noun:

• avulsion (e.g. removal of land by the action of water)

noun:

• Salvelinus; genus of salmonid fish of the family Salmonidae

noun:

• Trimma yanoi (species of goby from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan)

expression:

• just this side of; one step short of; on the brink

noun:

• knowledge of previous lifetimes (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

adjective:

• smelling of face powder ➜ 白粉
• coquettish; resembling the atmosphere of nightlife business