noun:

• light offered to a god or Buddha; votive light

ichidan verb:

• to find a market for; to extend the sale of

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to drive a quill (pen); to wield the writing brush

noun / ~する noun:

• adding; connecting; joining
• drawing a forced inference; forced analogy ➜ 牽強付会

noun / ~の noun:

• (not) in the least; (not) a bit - obscure term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to win fame; to make a name for oneself

noun:

• taking a lead in (doing); setting an example of (doing) - four character idiom

noun:

• abbreviated form of a Chinese character; simplified character
• acronym; abbreviation ➜ 略語

noun:

• conjunctive form; continuative form; -masu stem of a Japanese verb - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• telling others; revealing to others; letting out a secret

noun:

• sympathy for a tragic hero; rooting for the underdog - four character idiom

noun:

• ridgepole-raising; setting up of the framework of a house

noun:

• speaking with a trill; rolling one's r's

noun / ~する noun:

• industrialization; industrialisation
• establishing a production system; putting something into production

noun:

• idiomatic pronunciation or peculiar reading of a kanji or compound

noun:

• the spoken words of the emperor or a noble - honorific language

noun / ~する noun:

• dying by the roadside; dying a dog's death - sensitive

noun:

• small festival held the night before a full festival ➜ 本祭り

noun:

• private member's bill; legislation introduced by a Diet member

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• radicalization; radicalisation; becoming a radical
• intensification; becoming acute; narrowing; sharpening

noun / ~する noun:

• warming something in a vessel placed in hot water

noun:

• special consideration (esp. of a monarch, emperor, etc.); special favour

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious

noun:

• tyranny; abuse of power; violence (e.g. of a storm)