noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

• vital part (of the body); tender spot; weak point; vitals
• key point; essential point; crux (of a problem); heart (of a matter)
• male crotch (as a target in fighting) - colloquialism ➜ 金的

expression:

• complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.); fluttering; whack-whack (e.g. beating dust out of a rug); whap-whap - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• pitter-patter (of footsteps) - onomatopoeia
• quickly (making progress); in quick succession - onomatopoeia

expression:

• anything is better than nothing; kail spares bread; a bellyful is a bellyful, whether it be meat or drink; tea in the belly (will fill it) for a time [literal] - proverb

expression:

• after a short time; in a short while; a short time later

noun:

• dregs; sediment; grounds; meal
• lees (esp. sake) - often 粕
• leftovers; by-product
• worthless item; thing of little to no value
• dregs (e.g. of society); scum; dross
• card only worth 1 point (in hanafuda) ➜ カス札

adverb:

• one after another; one after the other; in rotation

noun / ~する noun:

• exchanging one after the other; changing repeatedly

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be at one's wit's end; to be in great trouble; to be at a loss

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month

noun:

• Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947

noun:

• voice
• singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); hoot
• voice; opinion (as expressed in words); view; wish; attitude; will
• sound
• sense (of something's arrival); feeling - usu. as ～の声を聞く
• voice; voiced sound - Linguistics term

noun:

• large cut (e.g. of meat) ［大切り・大切］
• last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

expression:

• take a long walk off a short pier; go stick your head in a pig; bash your head against the corner of a block of tofu and die [literal]

noun:

• ratio of the margin of loss of an electoral candidate in a single-constituent district (used to break ties when determining the representative of a proportionally represented district)

noun:

• steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)
• administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) ➜ 政所

noun:

• breaking up a match on doctor's orders (in boxing, etc.) - From English "doctor stop"
• being ordered by one's doctor to give up such habits as drinking, smoking, overeating, etc.

expression:

• walk a mile in other's shoes to understand their suffering; you can't appreciate others' suffering until you've gone through it yourself; pinch yourself and know others' pain [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be fascinated (by); to be captivated by; to be enchanted by; to gaze admiringly at; to watch in fascination

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to collect; to gather; to get together; to complete (a collection)
• to arrange; to put in order; to prepare; to get ready
• to make uniform; to make even; to match

noun:

• building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. ➜ 大内裏
• martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

suffix / ~の noun:

• -clad - after an article of clothing
• in the midst of - after a -masu stem - usually written using kana alone
• tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price) - after a number in the ichi, ni counting system
• times (i.e. multiplied by) - after a number in the hitotsu, futatsu counting system
• able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.) - after a number of people

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to finish; to end; to be completed
• to merely result in something less severe than expected
• to feel at ease
• to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry - in the negative ➜ すみません

noun:

• model; dummy; mock-up
• model (profession); fashion model
• model (of a car, etc.); make; version
• model; example; template; standard
• model (in model theory); theory
• person a fictional character was modeled on; inspiration