noun:

• morning of the New Year ➜ 元朝【がんちょう】

noun:

• closing of the winter hearth

noun:

• immediate follower (of the shogun) - obscure term ➜ 直参【じきさん】

noun:

• gonarthrosis; osteoarthritis of the knee - Medicine term

noun:

• theatre of the absurd (theater)

expression:

• remote; out-of-the-way

expression / adjective:

• remote; out-of-the-way ➜ 鳥も通わぬ【とりもかよわぬ】

noun:

• flowers of the season

noun:

• rear part of the tongue

noun:

• the right of innocent passage - Law term

noun:

• climate of the Setouchi Region

noun:

• Minister of the Imperial Household ➜ 宮内省

adjectival noun / noun:

• standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal - four character idiom

noun:

• batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike - Baseball term

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

noun:

• proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

noun:

• corporate culture; company climate or spirit; the way a company does things

noun:

• sharing a room; dormitory room
• match between wrestlers from the same stable - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

noun:

• gallery (in a theatre); upper gallery; cheap seats; nosebleed section; the gods - four character idiom

adverb:

• any; at all; in the least; even in a slight degree; ever

noun:

• particle that attaches to a phrase and acts on the whole phrase - e.g. the の of のです ➜ のです

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to proceed in a logical manner; to go through the proper channels

noun / ~する noun:

• two people using the same (vehicle) (often two on a bike)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to rock the left hand (to produce vibrato on a koto, etc.) - archaism