noun:

• proportion of one's income spent on one's dog - slang ➜ ワンちゃん・エンゲル係数

noun:

• one's native country; land of one's birth

noun:

• Ogura Anthology of One Hundred Tanka by One Hundred Poets

noun:

• expression of one's feelings; pouring out one's heart - four character idiom

adverb:

• before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares - from いつか知らぬ ➜ いつの間にか

noun:

• one gourd
• small drink (esp. of alcohol); drink one carries

noun:

• seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kind; variety; quality; tone
• material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject; theme; (news) copy
• ingredient; leaven (bread); main ingredient of a sushi - Food term
• cause; source
• trick; secret; magician's trick; inside story
• paternal blood; lineage ➜ 胤
• breed (of a stock); sperm; semen

noun:

• subject (of a portrait or bust); a person posing for a portrait or bust - obscure term
• (historically) patron; someone who commissions a Buddhist temple or work of art

noun:

• appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.
• literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
• face (of a printing type)

noun:

• taking over (e.g. store or family's headship)
• subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)

adjectival noun / noun:

• inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked - archaism ➜ 無道

noun:

• (the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

noun:

• true character; true form; true colors (colours); identity; truth (of a mystery, phenomenon, etc.); origin
• consciousness; one's senses

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to make a display of one's originality (eccentricity); to deliberately act oddly (e.g. to get attention)

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり・方違へ所

noun:

• setting off the night before one normally would have departed, travelling in a different direction, spending the night there, and leaving for one's destination in the morning (done to avoid travelling in an unlucky direction; a common practice during the Heian period) - archaism ➜ 方塞がり

expression:

• filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents) (from The Classic of Filial Piety)

noun:

• holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backward like a shrimp (in kabuki, represents being overwhelmed by someone's power)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be stripped of all one's clothes
• to lose everything one has

noun / ~する noun:

• attainment of one's most cherished desire; one's earnest prayer being answered - four character idiom

noun:

• one's own way of thinking; one's independent approach - male language

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

noun:

• remainder of one's life; one's remaining years

noun / ~の noun:

• one's whole body; all of one's might

noun / ~の noun:

• (one's) (special) field (of study); one's line