noun / ~する noun:

• pressing clothes, etc. by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps

noun:

• garment worn under the hanpi undergarment or hou robe in court ceremonial dress - archaism ➜ 半臂・袍

noun:

• schrund (crevasse, esp. a bergschrund, a crevasse near the head of a glacier) - From German ➜ ベルクシュルント

noun:

• volume number; reel number; scroll number
• number of volumes; number of reels; number of scrolls; number of turns (of a coil); number of windings (of a transformer, electromagnet, etc.)
• a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk ［かんじゅ・かんず］

noun:

• lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

noun:

• general policy speech; speech held by the Prime Minister of Japan at the start of a special or extraordinary Diet session

adverb:

• with a clunk; with a clank - onomatopoeia
• the sound of a sudden decrease (in profits, vigor, etc.)

noun:

• primary nursing care requirement authorization (a 5-level graded system under health insurance) ➜ 介護保険制度

noun:

• whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna

noun:

• Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression); Showa Depression ➜ 世界大恐慌

noun / ~する noun:

• reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end - four character idiom

noun:

• age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen

noun:

• the text; the main clause; the main part of a document - Linguistics term

noun:

• court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)
• female servant for a samurai family
• lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

expression / noun:

• ball of a finger; finger cushion; pulp of the finger; pad of the finger

noun:

• reduction in area of rice under cultivation

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers ➜ 単鉤法

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

noun:

• gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres
• gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square
• one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain
• conjunction - Astronomy term ➜ 衝

counter:

• counter for covered containers
• counter for matches, battles, etc.

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end) - slang - IT term

noun:

• game of chance similar to rock, paper scissors, where the different hand gestures symbolize a fox, a hunter and a village head

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); voluminously flowing
• (speak) eloquently; fluently; spout forth (a torrent of speech)
• flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video) - abbreviation ➜ イメージトレーニング