noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• generation-to-generation instruction from master to disciple - four character idiom

expression:

• the greatest hate proceeds from the greatest love - proverb

noun:

• wisdom obtained from meditation - Buddhism term
• wisdom and meditation - Buddhism term

noun:

• naked tribe; tribe or group that habitually goes naked
• nudist; nudism ➜ ヌーディズム
• being habitually undressed at home or in hotel rooms etc. (e.g. dressed in underwear) - slang

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to desire
• to wish for; to expect
• to see; to command (a view of)

noun:

• rising intonation; upward inflection
• rising (sales, tendency, etc.); getting better; improvement
• feet-first somersault hanging from the horizontal bar ➜ 逆上がり

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• poor who do not (or are unable to) seek help (from relatives or the authorities, etc.) - From English "silent poor"

expression / adjective:

• to not understand what somebody is getting at; to not understand what is being talked about

noun / suffix:

• place; spot; scene; site - also pronounced どころ when a suffix
• address
• district; area; locality
• one's house
• point; aspect; side; facet ➜ いいとこ
• passage (in text); part
• space; room
• thing; matter

noun:

• whereupon; as a result - after the plain past form of a verb
• about to; on the verge of - after present form of a verb
• was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing - after past form of a verb

adjectival noun:

• clear

noun / ~する noun:

• clearing (a bar, hurdle, etc.) - Sports term
• overcoming; getting through; getting past; completing; solving; settling; meeting (e.g. a standard)
• clearing (the ball) - in soccer - Sports term
• clearing (e.g. a checked box) - IT term

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ... - after a noun ➜ 時代がかる
• to have a trace of; to be tinged with ➜ 赤がかる

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

adverb:

• or; otherwise
• furthermore; also
• perhaps; by some chance; possibly - archaism
• that being said; be that as it may - archaism
• however; but - archaism
• not to mention; needless to say - archaism
• as expected; sure enough - archaism
• really; at all - used to express emphatic denial, suspicion, or emotion - archaism

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow; to observe; to conform to; to yield to
• to follow (a person); to accompany; to go with
• to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
• to serve (as); to engage in (work)

noun / ~する noun:

• development; growth; expansion; extension; flourishing
• development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; progression; unfolding
• playing around; having an active sex life - recently often associated with gay sex ➜ 発展場

noun:

• ripple; ring on the water
• repercussions
• Japanese slit drum; instrument made of iron with slits on top; makes a rippling sound - Music term

noun:

• point worthy of note; highlight (e.g. in a film); thing to note
• good prospects for the future; promise

noun:

• end (of play, match, etc.); closing
• closing a pachinko machine (after it has paid out its designated maximum)

noun:

• dignity; credit; public estimation; face; honor; reputation
• deed of sale (for a land, forest or house) - archaism
• sale value; selling price - archaism