noun / ~する noun:

• end of work day
• end of school term; end of school year

expression / noun:

• the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are ➜ 浮世

noun:

• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
• Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido ➜ 和人地

noun:

• (yarn) count

suffix:

• n-th place (e.g. in a race); n-th in position (e.g. a starting lineup) - as in 二番手 ➜ 一番手

noun:

• person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job

expression:

• in being immobile be like a mountain (from Sun Tzu); being imperturbable; immobile like a mountain (from laziness, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smash; to crush; to flatten
• to shut down; to put out of business; to force (a company) to close up shop
• to wreck; to break; to block; to thwart
• to butcher; to slaughter; to kill (livestock, for food)
• to kill (time); to while away (the time)
• to waste (e.g. talents)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes)
• to hook; to catch; to trap; to ensnare
• to cheat; to evade payment; to jump a bill
• to drink (alcohol)
• to splash someone (with) ➜ ぶっ掛ける
• to hit the ball off the end of the bat - Baseball term

expression:

• the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme; the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku) - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥風月

noun:

• food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table) ➜ 膳部

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the high side
• on the expensive side; comparatively expensive ➜ 安め【やすめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score - Mahjong term

noun:

• someone who made a short trip to America; going to America just long enough for a pee (ref. to short USA trip after WWII to boost one's credentials) - obsolete term - derogatory term ➜ 小便【しょんべん】

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be caught in; to be stuck in
• to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to be delayed; to take time
• to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to be involved with
• to fall for (a trick); to be deceived; to be cheated
• to be on one's mind; to worry one; to be bothered by; to feel uneasy
• to be obstructed; to be hindered
• to splash

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry up; to bring up; to lift up
• to elevate (someone) to a high position; to convince someone to accept a post (esp. through flattery)

noun:

• nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun:

• degree of perfection; level of completion; degree of completion

noun:

• mountain and water; landscape (containing hills and rivers)
• landscape picture ［さんすい］ - abbreviation ➜ 山水画
• mountain stream; water that flows down from a mountain
• garden which contains an artificial hill and a pond ［さんすい］ ➜ 築山

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】

expression:

• it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order - proverb ➜ 跡を濁す【あとをにごす】・立つ鳥跡を濁さず

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun / ~する noun:

• retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
• command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; imposition
• descent from heaven - orig. meaning

noun:

• carry-back; bringing the ball back to one's own position (in rugby) - Sports term
• carryback; carrying over a deduction or credit from a prior year to the current year (to reduce income tax) - Economics term

noun / ~する noun:

• heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling; drinking like a cow and eating like a horse - four character idiom