noun:

• cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering

noun:

• corpse of a person who has met a violent death

expression:

• being a member of staff but useless as a worker

noun / ~する noun:

• (a bar hostess) coming to work accompanied by a customer - four character idiom

expression:

• discouraged person; (like a) sheep being led to a slaughterhouse

noun:

• style of garden that features a path around a pond - obscure term

noun:

• bunbuku chagama (a mythical raccoon dog transformed into a teapot)

noun:

• call number (e.g. of a book in a library)

expression:

• a drowning man will catch at a straw - proverb

noun:

• clay face (made like a mask or as a decoration)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

expression:

• You must lose a fly to catch a trout - idiom

noun:

• running style (of a horse, e.g. a front runner)

noun:

• papercraft sculpture representing a scene akin to a painting

noun:

• coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill - idiom

expression / noun:

• fighting over nothing; making a mountain out of a molehill

expression:

• more than a friend (implies a degree of intimacy)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
• to unsew; to unstitch
• to solve; to work out; to answer
• to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
• to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
• to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
• to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair) ➜ 梳く【すく】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to have a dig at
• to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

noun / ~する noun:

• vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

noun / ~する noun:

• rotation (usu. on an axis); turning; spin ➜ 回転