noun:

• thin cedar or cypress shingles (4.5-6 mm thick, used for shingling roofs of temples, shrines, etc.)

adjectival noun:

• selfish; with disregard for order or rules - archaism
• reckless; rash; careless - archaism
• loose; bawdy - archaism ➜ みだら
• irrational; illogical - archaism

noun:

• warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed) - Food term ➜ 盛り蕎麦

noun:

• scorch; burn; scorching
• burnt rice ➜ お焦げ【おこげ】
• part of ceramic glaze that has become dark or darkish-brown during firing

noun:

• apartment too small to be legally rented out, and hence let as office or storage space

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る杭は打たれる

expression:

• the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる
• tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked - proverb ➜ 出る釘は打たれる

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show; to display; to flash
• to dangle (an offer) in front of; to hold out; to indirectly hint at; to intimate; to obliquely suggest; to allude to; to imply
• to send flurries (of snow, etc.)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to hit (e.g. baseball); to break wind
• to set free; to release; to let loose
• to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
• to send out (a person to carry out a duty)
• to set fire to - in the form 火を放つ ➜ 火を放つ

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to jerk one's chin; to nod toward; to point one's chin at ➜ 決る【しゃくる】

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• taking on one's share (e.g. of work); dividing (work, expenses, etc.) between; apportionment; allotment; allocation; assignment

noun:

• individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey ➜ 煙管乗車

noun:

• lotus position (meditation and yoga posture); padmasana; sitting with legs crossed and feet placed on opposing thighs

noun:

• living in another person's house without paying for food and lodging; sponging on other people for accommodation

noun:

• impractical desktop theory (proposition); unworkable idea; an idea that isn't worth the paper it's written on - four character idiom

noun:

• menu board (small blackboard on which the specials of the day, etc., are written)

noun:

• greater palace; area centered on the inner palace, home to various administrative bodies (in Heian period Kyoto) ➜ 内裏

noun:

• bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period)

noun:

• Washington Convention (i.e. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) ➜ ＣＩＴＥＳ

noun:

• homa stick; stick on which prayers are written, then ritually burnt before an idol to ask for blessings - Buddhism term

noun:

• Act on Payment of Relief Benefit for Victims, etc. of Crimes Committed by Aum Shinrikyo (2008)

noun:

• (inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence

noun:

• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

noun:

• title of a book; title of a literary work