noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun / ~する noun:

• acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting ➜ 了承

noun:

• Naraka; hell; hades - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "naraka"
• very bottom; the end; worst possible circumstances
• theatre basement; theater basement ［奈落］

noun / ~する noun:

• having a prince for a president; being the recipient of (an imperial favor, favour); reverential acceptance

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis) - occ. written 杜父魚

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

noun:

• (lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)

adjectival noun / noun:

• having one's hands full; not having any room to do more; at the limit

noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun:

• radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days (programme)

ichidan verb:

• to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians) - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by politicians (in the formulation of a policy or bill) (rather than by bureaucrats) - four character idiom

noun:

• radio or television serial broadcast in the same time slot each day or week

noun:

• sub-temple, esp. a Zen one founded to commemorate the death of a high priest - Buddhism term

expression / adjectival noun:

• triumphant (over a mediocre achievement); boastful; as if one had grabbed a demon by the neck [literal]

noun:

• hitting the maximum value of a numeric counter (in a video game) - From English "counter stop" ➜ カンスト

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

noun:

• (university) club that exists for the purpose of getting women drunk and taking advantage of them

adjectival noun:

• at the point of death; almost dead; about to die
• at some limit (pain, hunger, etc.)

noun:

• (Japanese) electoral system allowing for the election of from 3 to 5 candidates from one district ➜ 大選挙区制

noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• kanji used to represent syllables, based on their "kun" readings (prior to the advent of kana) ➜ 音仮名【おんがな】