noun:

• closing mid-way
• taking a break mid-way through an event, sometimes with ceremonial hand-clapping

adjectival noun / noun:

• as one expects; as one wants; to one's satisfaction; as one sees fit

noun / ~する noun:

• turn (stroke) of good fortune; one's fortune turning for the better - four character idiom

noun:

• anthropological argument (one of Descartes' ontological arguments for the existence of God)

expression:

• feast for one's eyes; sight as pleasing as the New Year

expression:

• being besieged by suitors; to be popular; eight suitors for one daughter [literal] - idiom

expression:

• he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; sometimes you have to lose to win - proverb

noun:

• Yellow Cab - trademark
• Japanese woman who readily sleeps with foreign men (sometimes a stereotype of all Japanese women) - slang

noun:

• sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) - esp. 吉備団子
• millet dumplings - esp. 黍団子

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video); mental dry run - From English "image training"

expression:

• for better or worse; for good or for evil

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• area of the field one is supposed to (or able to) defend - Sports term
• (one's) field; (one's) scope; area of expertise; range of topics one can converse about; breadth of one's interests and knowledge
• one's type; kind of person one is attracted to

expression / ichidan verb:

• to entrust (a person) with power of attorney (to do something for one)

expression:

• to get more than one requests; to beg for water and receive wine [literal] - idiom

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make something one's own; to appropriate for oneself

noun:

• the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha) - Buddhism term ➜ 易行道

expression:

• what more can one say?; utterly at a loss for words (because of disbelief or disgust)

noun:

• demanding again what one has already obtained; coaxing out of someone for a second time - obscure term ➜ 強請り

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate ➜ ニホンザル
• sly person - derogatory term
• idiot; hick - derogatory term
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
• clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook ➜ 自在鉤
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• article for sale; goods for sale; offering; For Sale (on a sign)
• specialty; selling point

noun:

• San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)

noun:

• characteristic quality; special character; one's real ability; one's specialty
• one's function; one's duty
• fief; inherited estate

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)
• skill
• scope of one's power
• one's intentions; one's plan
• one's hand (mahjong, card games, etc.)

noun:

• straw bag; bale; sack

suffix / counter:

• counter for sacks; counter for bales; counter for bags ［ひょう］ - sometimes pronounced びょう, ぴょう