noun:

• the mid-month's slate of entertainment in a variety hall

noun:

• signature or written seal at the end of a document

noun:

• foreword; preface; introduction ［じょし］
• prefatory modifying statement (of a waka, etc.)

noun:

• opening of a new theater (theatre)

noun:

• salted salmon roe (i.e. a mass of immature eggs) ➜ イクラ

noun / ~する noun:

• statement (of a carefully reasoned logical argument); dissertation; enunciation; setting forth

noun / ~する noun:

• looking down (from the heavens); visit of a high-ranking person

noun:

• obi-tying ceremony designed to ensure safe birth of a child

noun:

• first number (e.g. issue of a magazine)
• No. 1 type

noun:

• citing or naming a variety of flowers
• multi-flowered design

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a hard time of it ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】

noun:

• employee of a messenger or delivery service - From English "hand carrier"

noun:

• flour paste cake in the form of a tube

noun:

• strip of paper featuring advertisements, wrapped around a book's jacket

expression:

• receiving a windfall; having an unexpected piece of good luck ➜ 棚牡丹

noun / ~する noun:

• reorganization (e.g. of a company); reorganisation; consolidation; scrap-and-build

noun:

• three special awards for wrestlers at the end of a tournament - Sumo term ➜ 殊勲賞・敢闘賞・技能賞

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• suddenly seeing the light; achieving full enlightenment all of a sudden - four character idiom

noun:

• game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) - four character idiom

noun:

• slowdown strategy; go-slow tactics (of workers in a labor dispute) - four character idiom

noun:

• (having a) good chance of being elected (winning) (in an election) - four character idiom

adverbial noun / noun:

• within the next couple of days; in a day or two - four character idiom

noun:

• nose cone (e.g. of a rocket)

noun:

• last scene (e.g. of a movie)