expression / adjective:

• cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do ➜ ざる

expression:

• cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do ➜ せざるを得ない

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to admit defeat; to turn tail (and run) - idiom

expression / adjective:

• cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do ➜ ざる・せざるを得ない

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to spit out all around; to vomit all around
• to spew out (e.g. dirty language)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to do something stupid; to do something pointless; to hit a muddy rice field with a stick [literal] - obscure term - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get one's lazy butt in gear; to get off one's backside; to bestir oneself - idiom

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• sitting outdoors - archaism
• room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion ➜ 寝殿造り
• temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies

noun:

• western Japan; Japan west of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. the Chūbu region and westward ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・東日本

noun:

• start; beginning; build up
• how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game - Baseball term

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• temporary shrine (houses the object in which the deity resides when main shrine is under repairs) - Shintō term

noun:

• turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

noun:

• the hundredth year
• out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
• rare chance; unusually good fortune

noun / ~する noun:

• worldly wise; sophisticated; street smart; knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); toughness

noun:

• an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing ➜ 学園祭

noun:

• kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times ➜ 七変化【しちへんげ】
• the seven common disguises of ninja

adverb:

• along the road (e.g. following its curves without turning off at any intersection); along the street

noun:

• (in China) 12th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C sharp) ➜ 十二律・上無
• tenth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• (in China) 11th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. C) ➜ 十二律
• ninth month of the lunar calendar

noun:

• widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断前部

noun:

• orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break) - obscure term - IT term ➜ 分断後部

noun:

• Nasolamia (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose only member is the whitenose shark)

noun:

• Prionace (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the blue shark)