noun / ~する noun:

• legal reregistration in one's family; reenrollment (in school); reenrolment

noun:

• soba water; water left in the pot after one has boiled soba

noun / ~の noun:

• being one or more laps behind (in a race)
• being behind the times

noun:

• work of art the creator has confidence in; work one is proud of

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to carry on one's back
• to be burdened with; to take responsibility for
• to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be conceited; to think highly of oneself ［しょう］ - in the form しょってる ➜ しょってる

noun:

• human (in Ainu); one's fellow man; kin; comrade - From Ainu
• self-referential term used by the Ainu about their people ➜ アイヌ

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

noun:

• one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters) - Buddhism term ➜ 六知事

expression / noun:

• the powers that be ➜ 権力者

conjunction:

• if that's the case - Kansai dialect ➜ だったら

noun / ~する noun:

• club that has suspended its activities
• not attending one's club

noun:

• metal fake sword (esp. one that greatly resembles a real sword)

noun:

• disaster certificate; document certifying that one is a disaster victim

noun:

• distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost - Baseball term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby)
• to take upon oneself; to be saddled with

noun:

• a bright (rosy) future awaiting one; having the world before one - four character idiom

noun:

• in the town; in the street

noun:

• in the ministry; in the department

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

expression:

• having been told something so often that one is fed up with it - abbreviation - idiom - colloquialism ➜ 耳に胼胝ができる【みみにたこができる】

noun:

• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

noun:

• dirt mound
• dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

expression:

• everything comes in handy when used correctly; use the right tools for the right job; fools and (blunt) scissors have to be used in the right way - proverb

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video) - abbreviation ➜ イメージトレーニング

noun:

• dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)