noun:

• (professional) driver (of a taxi, train, etc.); motorman
• mate (on a ship); officer ➜ 航海士

noun:

• thick illustrated publication on a single topic printed to look like a magazine - from "magazine" and "book" - From English "mook"

noun / ~する noun:

• stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others

noun / ~する noun:

• bogging down; dragging on; turning into a quagmire; becoming mired in a mess

noun:

• hundred times worship (e.g. visiting a shrine or temple a hundred times for prayer, walking back and forth a hundred times before a shrine offering a prayer each time) ➜ 御百度

noun:

• large flat wooden plank shaped like a fish, struck like a gong at temple to indicate time of day - Buddhism term

noun:

• traffic accident caused by a driver thanking another driver for letting him go first at a junction

noun:

• ready fire-power; battle-ready forces; immediate asset (to a team or firm); someone who can be an immediately effective player or worker - Business, Sports term

noun:

• food (on a table) (esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant) ➜ 膳
• cook; chef; person who prepares food

noun:

• gallery; corridor ➜ 廊下・回廊
• art gallery
• upper gallery (in a theatre) ➜ 天井桟敷
• spectators (esp. at a golf tournament)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to jab; to swing at a bad ball (baseball) - idiom
• to reach for (a snack, etc.)

noun:

• derived unit (i.e. metre per second, cubic metre, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

noun / adverb:

• with that; on that note; altogether; ending at that point; cut off there ➜ それっ切り

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told - humble language
• to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to visit - humble language
• to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.) - from 御機嫌を伺う

expression:

• You must seize every golden opportunity; Strike while the iron is hot; When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price - four character idiom

noun:

• jigo; go game resulting in a tie or a draw

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

suffix / particle:

• a mere (status or characteristic); implies activity unsuited to (status or characteristic)

noun:

• today and tomorrow; today or tomorrow; in a day or two - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
• to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution

noun:

• stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side
• rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.

noun:

• ridge-end tile with the figure of a Shachihoko (e.g. on a castle)

noun:

• "new" sumo (for women) conducted on a mat, wearing leotards instead of a mawashi - Sumo term

noun:

• chocolate given by a boy to a girl on Valentine's day - obscure term