noun:

• gap year; yearlong break taken between high school and university

noun:

• cassata; Italian layered sponge cake - Food term - From Italian
• ice-cream with nuts and preserved fruit

noun:

• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

noun:

• seasoning of grated daikon with soy and vinegar, usu. for fish or vegetables - Food term ➜ おろし和え【おろしあえ】

noun:

• young men and women who frequented Miyuki Street, Ginza, in the summer of 1964

expression:

• two people arguing and not letting the other express their opinions - idiom

noun:

• win by discarding nothing but terminal and honor tiles in an otherwise drawn round - Mahjong term

noun:

• magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)

noun:

• Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant); Daesh; IS; ISIL
• information separator; delimiter - IT term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to introduce oneself; to announce oneself (e.g. as the person sought); to come forward (e.g. as a witness, with a claim, etc.)

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era

~の noun:

• (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

noun:

• taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
• someone who enjoys alcohol
• place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
• shape of one's mouth when drinking
• tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち

noun / ~する noun:

• promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束

noun / ~の noun:

• something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

noun:

• curry
• rice and curry - abbreviation ➜ カレーライス

noun:

• Japanese and Chinese poetry
• poetry; poems

noun:

• battery
• battery; pitcher and catcher - Baseball term

noun:

• women and children
• woman; grown woman; wife

noun / ~の noun:

• critical (touch and go) situation; explosive situation - four character idiom

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to cry and shout; to scream

noun:

• triple jump; hop, step and jump

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wide open (of eyes); large and bright (eyes) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• high and inside pitch - Baseball term - From English "in high"
• inter high school - abbreviation ➜ インターハイ・全国高等学校総合体育大会