noun:

• wrapping something in a bamboo mat
• wrapping somebody in a bamboo mat and throwing him in a river (Edo period unofficial punishment)

noun:

• a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable - four character idiom

noun:

• protecting a rice field; watching over a field; person who watches over a rice field

noun:

• outline; main point; gist

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• general; substantially; approximately; about
• in the first place; to begin with; from the start

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• innocence
• insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.)
• free from obstructive thoughts - Buddhism term ➜ 有心

~する noun / transitive:

• to pester someone (for cash, etc.)

noun:

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

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to make something (e.g. paper) from wet, pulpy material by spreading it thin and drying it

noun:

• Aikido technique, wherein the opponent is brought down by twisting his or her arm away from the body - Martial Arts term

noun:

• Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (7th of January); one of the 5 seasonal festivals ➜ 五節句

noun:

• filling in (e.g. between speakers at a meeting, acts at a show); material used to fill in (between speeches at a meeting, etc.); anecdote

adverbial noun / noun:

• one part; one portion; one section; some
• one copy (e.g. of a document)

noun:

• slope; incline; gradient; grade; pitch
• slope (of a linear function) - Mathematics term ➜ 傾き
• gradient (vector calculus) - Mathematics, Physics term

noun:

• battle formation; battle array
• lineup (of a team, etc.); cast; staff; team structure

noun:

• form (printing); forme; typesetting plate; original plate
• original edition (of a publication)

noun:

• kiseru; Japanese smoking pipe
• fire tube (of a fire-tube boiler)
• chimney

noun:

• portrait photo; mug shot; face shot; photograph of a person's face

noun:

• taboo word
• euphemism (used in place of a taboo word)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to let something slip

noun / ~する noun:

• rubbing cheeks together (as a display of affection); pressing cheeks together

noun:

• formal opening (e.g. of a railway, road, etc.); opening ceremony; inauguration ceremony

expression:

• in a few days; in the near future; soon; one of these days

noun:

• bang bang chicken (Szechuan dish of chicken in a spicy sauce) - From Chinese "bang bang ji"

noun:

• weekly ideas; weekly thoughts; ideas brought forth at the conclusion of a week

noun:

• credits roll (at the end of a show or movie); end credit roll - From English "endroll"

noun:

• assembly at the end of the day (at a company or school, etc.) ➜ 朝礼【ちょうれい】