noun:

• large country; major nation; great power
• province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)

noun:

• slip; omission
• outcome; final result; the end
• punch line (of a joke) - often オチ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season - four character idiom ➜ 暑中お見舞い

noun:

• pochette; pouch (usu. hung from the shoulder by a long cord) - From French

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo - abbreviation

noun:

• taste; elegance; charm ［ふぜい］
• appearance; air

suffix:

• the likes of ...; lowly people such as ... ［ふぜい］ - humble language - derogatory term

noun:

• someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter ➜ 表方
• lady consort (to a high personage)

noun:

• dazzling victory
• win of a rank-and-file wrestler over the grand champion - Sumo term

noun:

• making provision for the elderly
• Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)

noun / ~する noun:

• going back to sleep (e.g. after waking up in the morning)

noun / ~する noun:

• flying
• false start - abbreviation ➜ フライングスタート
• doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date

suffix noun / noun:

• itself

noun:

• one's own body; oneself

adverb:

• originally; naturally; by nature; from the start

noun:

• superman; superwoman
• Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman

noun:

• first day of spring (according to the traditional lunisolar calendar, approx. Feb. 4) ➜ 二十四節気

noun:

• leftover food (esp. on one's plate at the end of a meal)

noun:

• type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process

noun:

• sacred tree
• support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires ［しんぼく］

noun:

• playing to the gallery; grandstanding; gag; claptrap

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• ad hoc; haphazard

noun:

• dress rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 場当たり稽古

expression:

• at the time of (ind. opportunity or situation where something should be done)

noun:

• Defense Readiness Condition; DEFCON; alert state used by the United States Armed Forces

noun:

• Turkish bath
• soapland (brothel where one can bathe with the prostitutes) - sensitive ➜ ソープランド

noun / ~する noun:

• stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution - From English "match pump, i.e. lighting a match and then putting it out with a water pump"

noun:

• Giardia lamblia; protozoan parasite of the small intestine that causes giardiasis ➜ ランブル鞭毛虫症

noun:

• Rigel Kentaurus (star in the constellation Centaurus); Alpha Centauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968) ➜ 下放運動【かほううんどう】