noun:

• free dance (in ice dancing); FD - Sports term

noun:

• hill size (in ski jumping); HS - Sports term

noun:

• small hill (in ski jumping); SH - Sports term

noun:

• medium hill (in ski jumping); MH - Sports term

noun:

• mass start (esp. in speed skating) - Sports term

noun:

• marbled sole (Pleuronectes yokohamae) (esp. caught in Beppu bay) ➜ 真子鰈【まこがれい】

noun:

• start broaching (a subject); opening remark; start; commencement; beginning
• event at the start of the tenth month of the lunar calendar
• opening a sealed jar or container

expression:

• there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave - proverb

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky - abbreviation ➜ 天一神・陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles
• neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes) ➜ 郷里制・国郡里制
• unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m) ➜ 条里制

noun:

• imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War
• portrait or photo of a person of high rank - honorific language

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

noun:

• miso lees; miso strainings; miso dregs
• child who is made light of; child who is left out of games; immature child or person; good-for-nothing

noun:

• monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate ➜ ニホンザル
• sly person - derogatory term
• idiot; hick - derogatory term
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
• clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook ➜ 自在鉤
• bathhouse prostitute - archaism ➜ 湯女

godan ~く verb:

• to wear on the head - archaism
• to have cloth, clothing, etc. bestowed upon one by their lord or master; to wear such cloth on the left shoulder
• to be injured

noun:

• head (chief, director) of a section or department
• head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team ➜ 倶楽部

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

auxiliary verb:

• used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader) - polite language ➜ ませ
• used to indicate respect for those affected by the action - archaism - humble language

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal]

expression:

• not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again) [literal] ➜ いたちの道

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed
• to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off; to be taken off

adjective:

• wanted; wished for; in need of; desired ➜ 欲しがる

auxiliary adjective:

• I want (you) to - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun / suffix noun:

• pillow; bolster
• introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in

noun:

• taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair

counter:

• counter for tatami mats
• measure of room size (in mat units)