"土壇場" meaning in Japanese

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally, a platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "土壇場",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "土",
          "ど"
        ],
        [
          "壇",
          "たん"
        ],
        [
          "場",
          "ば"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dotanba",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "どたんば"
      },
      "expansion": "土(ど)壇(たん)場(ば) • (dotanba)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "dotakyan",
          "word": "ドタキャン"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the last minute; the eleventh hour"
      ],
      "id": "en-土壇場-ja-noun-cXbYBOc2",
      "links": [
        [
          "last minute",
          "last minute"
        ],
        [
          "eleventh hour",
          "eleventh hour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) the last minute; the eleventh hour"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "roman": "dokudanjō",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "独壇場",
              "どくだんじょう"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "独壇場"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "どたんば"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[do̞tã̠mba̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "土壇場"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "dotakyan",
      "word": "ドタキャン"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Originally, a platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "土壇場",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "土",
          "ど"
        ],
        [
          "壇",
          "たん"
        ],
        [
          "場",
          "ば"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dotanba",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "どたんば"
      },
      "expansion": "土(ど)壇(たん)場(ば) • (dotanba)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "dokudanjō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "独壇場",
          "どくだんじょう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "独壇場"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese idioms",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese nouns",
        "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms written with three Han script characters"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the last minute; the eleventh hour"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "last minute",
          "last minute"
        ],
        [
          "eleventh hour",
          "eleventh hour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) the last minute; the eleventh hour"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "どたんば"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[do̞tã̠mba̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "土壇場"
}