noun:

• key performer; last performer of the day ➜ 取り【とり】

noun:

• twenty-seventh day of the month
• twenty-seven days

noun:

• twenty-ninth day of the month
• twenty-nine days

expression:

• that's out of the question; it's just not possible

ichidan verb:

• to strip (the head of a screw, bolt, etc.); to wear out - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• considering the pros and cons of; examining arguments for and against

~の noun:

• within expectations; as expected; within the scope of hypothesis or assumption

~の noun / noun:

• off tempo; out of tune - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• being off the mark; wrong guess; miscalculation - archaism

noun:

• Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas - Buddhism term ➜ 両界曼荼羅【りょうかいまんだら】

noun / ~の noun:

• active duty; active service
• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try - often as 現役で ➜ 浪人【ろうにん】

expression:

• let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start the debate; to get the ball rolling; to fire the first shot (fig. only); to start a conversation

noun:

• flying; leaping; flight; leap - abbreviation ➜ 飛ぶ
• naught; zero; oh - when reading a number aloud
• flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo) ➜ 飛魚
• running out of points (zero or fewer); game ending due to a player running out of points ［飛び］ - Mahjong term

noun:

• tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe - four character idiom

noun:

• skilled engineer (mechanic) who is clumsy in all other matters; person who gets a great kick out of tinkering with anything mechanical - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to decide on
• to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to catch (e.g. insects)
• to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample)
• to assume (an attitude)
• to take on (workers, students); to employ; to hire
• to draw in (e.g. water); to let in (e.g. light from a window)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to find out; to discover; to notice; to detect
• to select; to pick out
• to look out (from the inside)
• to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

expression:

• from the start; from the beginning; from the outset

expression:

• the style is the man; the style is the man himself - from a quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc - proverb

noun:

• language spoken by the Emishi ➜ 蝦夷【えぞ】
• languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) ➜ 南蛮【なんばん】
• foreign language

noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier - abbreviation ➜ 内閣総理大臣

noun / ~する noun:

• leading; overseeing; leader; overseer; president - orig. meaning

noun:

• green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
• meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis) ［あおやぎ］ ➜ バカ貝

noun:

• handwriting; autograph; authorization; authorisation ➜ 墨付き
• certificate; certified document; paper with signature of the shogun or lord

noun:

• small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands

noun:

• successive generations
• hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) - abbreviation ➜ 譜代大名