expression:

• but he has to be handsome; that said, only if he's a looker; phrase poking fun at people describing their ideal male partner, as a postscript - humorous term

noun / ~する noun:

• overlooking; looking down at; having an overhead view; having a bird's-eye view; having a high-angle view

noun:

• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to take measures (in face of events being anticipated)
• to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain
• to clap one's hands together

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to tickle
• to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to appeal to; to flatter
• to make laugh; to amuse; to entertain

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge
• to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack; to cram; to fill up

noun:

• cost performance; cost effectiveness
• value for money; bang for one's buck

noun:

• Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens); North Atlantic beaked whale; North Sea beaked whale

godan ~す verb:

• to excuse oneself; to take one's leave ➜ 辞する
• to quit; to resign; to retire; to leave post
• to decline; to turn down
• to not hesitate - adjectivally as 〜を辞さず, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• setting the table; laying the table
• setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference; setting the stage - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• including a sum of money in one's calculations
• appropriation (a sum of money)

noun:

• scriptures; sacred book; holy book; holy writings
• writings of a sage; sage's memoir

noun:

• one's old school or university; alma mater; the school or university one attended

expression:

• from one's side; from the side (of something)
• from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved ➜ 横から口を挟む

noun:

• period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)

expression:

• it is better to; it is best to; there's nothing better than

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

noun:

• Movement for Civic Rights and Freedom (Meiji era); Freedom and People's Rights Movement

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to reach
• to be compensated; to make up for one's losses

expression:

• if that's the case; that being the case ➜ だと

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold down; to twist someone's arm
• to force (someone) to yield (e.g. an argument); to make (someone) surrender

noun:

• growth; development
• stretching (one's body, e.g. when waking up)
• (ability to) spread (of paint, cream, etc.)
• elongation; extension; carry (e.g. of sound); sustain

expression / adjective:

• mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable - idiom

noun:

• white
• striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus) ➜ 鯔【ぼら】
• speech; one's lines ➜ せりふ
• white dragon tile - Mahjong term
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles - Mahjong term
• white person; Caucasian - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 白人

prefix noun / suffix noun / noun:

• Belgium - abbreviation - obscure term ➜ ベルギー

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り