noun:

• mess; sorry state; plight; sad sight - derogatory term

suffix:

• -ways; -wards - indicates direction
• in the act of ...; just as one is ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
• manner of ...; way of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様【さま】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持す

noun:

• place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position - archaism

adverb:

• in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it ➜ 詰まり【つまり】

expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2nd Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)

noun / ~の noun:

• flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom
• the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty
• booming or peaking (in popularity)

noun:

• how-to (book)
• self-help book

expression / adjective:

• it goes without saying; there is no need to say so, but of course; it is needless to say; it need scarcely be said

noun:

• loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
• weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not

expression:

• the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea [literal] - proverb

expression:

• in evil, there is odds; there is more evil than good in this world; one good thing tends to cause many bad things to happen - four character idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to collapse; to crumble
• to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to become disorganized; to become untidy
• to break down; to be thrown into disarray
• to crash (stock market); to slump; to decline
• to break money into small change
• to turn bad (e.g. weather); to change for the worse; to deteriorate

noun:

• style of building; construction; workmanship; way of making ➜ 作る
• recipe ➜ 作る
• how to grow (something) ➜ 作る

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) ➜ 式年祭

noun:

• spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market (etc.) - From English "position talk"
• statement that is beneficial to oneself

noun:

• pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (yaku) - Mahjong term ➜ 連風牌

noun:

• declaring that one is one tile away from winning while one's hand is completely concealed - Mahjong term - From Chinese "lizhi"
• being one step away from completing something (winning, losing, game over, etc.)