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:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• light (of movements); nimble; sprightly; springy
• light-hearted; cheerful; buoyant; jaunty; casual (e.g. clothing); rhythmical (e.g. melody)

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a turn for the better (of an illness); receding of symptoms; recovery; convalescence

expression:

• very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day [literal]

noun:

• identifying mark (esp. a mark of comradeship)
• mark placed where two pieces of cloth are to be sewn together (or two pieces of wood joined, etc.)
• verification seal; tally ➜ 合い印【あいいん】

noun / ~する noun:

• moving; relocation; change of address
• transfer (of deeds, property, etc.); demise

noun:

• purple; violet
• Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell) - usually written using kana alone
• type of soy sauce ➜ 醤油

noun:

• protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story)
• head of household

noun:

• edge (of a knife or sword)
• prong (of an electrical plug)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• raising the curtain Antonym: 閉幕【へいまく】

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (of an event); start of a season Antonym: 閉幕【へいまく】

noun / ~する noun:

• requital of a favour (favor); repayment (of an obligation, kindness, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• making light of; thinking little of; slighting; belittling; dismissing; contempt; disdain

noun / ~する noun:

• repayment; settlement (of a debt); paying off; reimbursement (of expenses)

noun / ~の noun:

• origin of an illness; cause of a disease; pathogenesis; etiology

noun:

• impression of a seal over the joint of two papers; tally

expression / noun:

• six of one, half a dozen of the other; scant difference - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• implementation (e.g. of a feature); installation (of equipment); mounting; packaging

noun:

• reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence

noun:

• creditor; lender; credit side (of the ledger) ➜ 借り方
• method of lending

noun:

• hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)

noun / ~の noun:

• mutability (of worldly affairs); fleeting shifts and changes (of human life) - four character idiom

noun:

• compendium of laws; statute books; complete book of the Six Codes [literal]

noun:

• a great variety of; all sorts or kinds of; multifarious - four character idiom

noun:

• font of purifying water placed at the entrance of a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• vertical shaking (of an earthquake) ➜ 横揺れ
• pitching (of a boat, aircraft, etc.)