noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• tall chair (e.g. for eating at a counter); bar stool
• high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food ➜ 子供椅子

prefix noun:

• the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former
• pre- (e.g. "premodern") - before the name of an era

~の noun / noun:

• before; earlier ➜ 前【まえ】

adverb / pronoun:

• where; which; who
• anyway; anyhow; at any rate

adverb:

• sooner or later; eventually; one of these days; at some future date or time

pronoun:

• both; either; any; all; whichever

noun:

• bow (and arrow) - ゆ is usu. a prefix
• archery
• bow (for a violin, etc.)

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take and spit the water prior to a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• even (of a trade); no advantage and no disadvantage

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• wide and deep (of a body of water); voluminous

noun:

• being a jack of all trades and master of none

noun:

• being a jack of all trades and master of none ➜ 螻蛄才

noun:

• nursery school sleepover; one night sleepover at school in summer vacation of last year of nursery school

noun:

• revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; edition incorporating many changes and corrections
• final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely

noun:

• ganglion; swelling on a tendon sheath - Medicine term
• ganglion; nerve ganglion; nerve knot - Anatomy term ➜ 神経節

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting on a table; serving (at dinner)

noun:

• waiter; waitress; waitperson; server; cabin boy; bellboy; page; pageboy
• office boy; office girl

noun:

• projecting part (of a headland, etc.) ［でばな・出鼻］
• moment of departure; (on the) point of going out
• outset; start; beginning

noun:

• numbered ticket (e.g. to determine order of service in shop, etc.)
• zone ticket; boarding ticket; bus ticket dispensed at boarding, used to show where one boarded

noun:

• chart used to keep track of a wrestler's records during the tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• Little's disease (i.e. spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy)

expression:

• there is no comparison between the two; it's not a same-day discussion [literal] - proverb

noun:

• archer's glove (with a groove for pulling the string)

counter:

• double; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

noun:

• communicating while drinking (usu. with colleagues); communicating through drinking together; boozing with work people - from 飲み and コミュニケーション ➜ ノミュニケーション

noun / ~の noun:

• half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary