ichidan verb / transitive:

• to select; to choose
• to diagnose (an illness); to judge
• to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror)
• to see someone off
• to look after; to be (someone's) guardian
• to underrate; to look down on; to underestimate (someone)

noun / ~の noun:

• walk-in; person who walks into a hotel, etc. without a reservation

noun:

• walk-in closet - abbreviation ➜ ウオークインクロゼット

adjectival noun / noun:

• hard (on the ears); offensive (to the ear); rasping; rough; harsh; grating; jarring; cacophonous

noun / ~する noun:

• mass for the dead; Buddhist service held on the anniversary of someone's death

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun / ~の noun:

• according to (depending on) the mood of the moment; as one's fancy dictates - four character idiom

noun:

• Shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area

noun:

• big moment (e.g. performance, in the spotlight); gala occasion; (on the) world stage ➜ 晴れ舞台

noun:

• form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) ➜ 宿曜

adverb:

• from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, slippers, pants, a skirt, etc.) ➜ 着替える
• to put on the wrong pair of shoes by mistake ➜ 履き違える

expression / ichidan verb:

• to employ the right person; to choose somebody with the right qualities

noun:

• gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造り・対の屋・釣り殿
• central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple)
• central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)

expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

noun:

• a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)

pre-noun adjectival:

• the usual; as it always is
• said; that (previously-mentioned person or object); aforementioned; you-know-(who, what, etc.)

adverb:

• in the usual way - archaism

noun:

• warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be renewed; to change ［改まる］
• to be improved; to be reformed; to be revised; to be corrected ［改まる］
• to stand on ceremony; to be formal ［改まる］
• to take a turn for the worse (of an illness); to take a serious turn

particle:

• at (place, time); in; on; during
• to (direction, state); toward; into
• for (purpose)
• because of (reason); for; with
• by; from
• as (i.e. in the role of) ➜ として
• per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
• and; in addition to
• if; although - archaism

expression / adjective:

• useless; stupid; good-for-nothing ➜ 仕様が無い
• having no way to do ...

noun:

• "new" sumo (for women) conducted on a mat, wearing leotards instead of a mawashi - Sumo term

noun:

• chocolate given by a boy to a girl on Valentine's day - obscure term

noun:

• downstage right pillar (on a noh stage) used as a positioning guidepost for actors

noun:

• loading goods on a truck - From English "vanning"
• remodelling a station wagon, light van, etc.