noun:

• losing initiative; being forestalled ➜ 先手【せんて】
• second move (in go or shogi); moving second; person with the second move
• rear guard ➜ 後詰め

noun:

• reporter assigned to cover a particular person in order to get the most up-to-date information; beat reporter

noun:

• picture-matching (with card games, etc.); matching pictures
• picture-matching contest (popular in the Heian period); e-awase

noun:

• tattoo (esp. a tattoo of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword); person with a tattoo ➜ 倶利迦羅

temporal noun:

• first arrival; first in race

noun:

• suit of clothes ➜ 着

noun:

• repetition of position (in chess, shogi, etc.); repetition draw

godan ~う verb:

• to be in a fit (of anger); to rage

pre-noun adjectival:

• somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

noun:

• included number; number of items, etc. in a total

noun:

• celebrating in advance; advance blessing (e.g. of crops)

noun / adjectival noun:

• being rich; having plenty of money; wallowing in money

expression / adverb:

• actually; in fact; as a matter of fact ➜ 実際は【じっさいは】

noun:

• sense of immersion (esp. in video games, etc.); immersion

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

suffix noun:

• and Company; Messrs; for the attention of ...

noun:

• itemization (of expenses); the items; breakdown; classification

noun:

• hot topic; talk of the town

noun:

• product of the land
• present; souvenir ➜ みやげ

noun:

• southern part; the south (of a region)

noun / ~の noun:

• northern part; the north (of a region)

noun:

• first of the sexagenary cycle

noun:

• eastern part; the east (of a region)

noun:

• kendo; swordmanship; fencing; way of the sword [literal]

noun:

• habitat; home (e.g. of the tiger)

noun:

• wrestler of the fourth highest rank - Sumo term