noun:

• interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview - From English "hero interview"

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become broken; to break down
• to be crazy; to be nuts - usu. as イカれて（い）る
• to be infatuated with
• to be outdone (by someone); to be beaten (in a contest)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree

noun:

• Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up
• to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits

noun:

• Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

counter:

• counter for small animals ［ひき］
• counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size)
• counter for horses ［き］ - archaism

noun:

• roll of cloth

noun:

• standing highest in one's master's favor; monopolizing the affection (favor) of the lord; being the lord's favorite lady - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the baton (e.g. in a relay race)
• to pass the baton; to hand on the torch - idiom

ichidan verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• figure; design
• twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes ［綾］
• style (of writing); figure (of speech)
• design; plot; plan
• minor market fluctuation; technical correction
• cat's cradle - abbreviation ➜ 綾取り【あやとり】
• lease rod (in a loom) - abbreviation ➜ 綾竹

noun:

• Mary Celeste; famous British ship found in 1872 without crew or passengers
• archetypal ghost ship; unmanned ship

noun:

• reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house
• State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)

noun:

• bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree - abbreviation ➜ 月桂樹
• moon; moonlight
• katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends) - orig. meaning

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to sell well; to sell out
• to be in order
• to be sociable; to be worldly and understanding

noun:

• without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

noun:

• hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world - four character idiom

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】

noun:

• monkey banana (var. of wild banana in the Philippines and Okinawa) (Musa acuminata 'Seniorita'); seniorita banana; var. of banana producing small fruit - From English "monkey banana"

noun:

• the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; wu xing ➜ 五大【ごだい】
• five practices of the Bodhisattvas - Buddhism term
• the five pillars of Islam ➜ 六信五行

noun:

• the sun ［てんとう・てんどう］
• god of heaven and the earth ［てんとう・てんどう］
• laws governing the heavens ［てんとう・てんどう］
• celestial path; celestial motion ［てんとう・てんどう］ - Astronomy term
• deva realm (svarga) - Buddhism term ➜ 六道
• path in the heavens ［あまじ］

noun:

• gathering of men and women who sang courtship songs to each other and danced; dancing and singing feast of young men and women in ancient Japan - archaism