noun:

• cushion ball; carom off the outfield wall by a batted ball - Baseball term

noun:

• apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock ➜ 火蓋を切る

noun / ~する noun:

• going from door to door greeting relatives and friends
• complimentary visit for the New Year

noun:

• outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo - abbreviation ➜ 外様大名
• outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to bear the full brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning) - idiom

noun:

• the six internal organs (large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao, urinary bladder) ➜ 三焦

noun:

• iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• cercopithecoid (any Old World monkey of family Cercopithecidae, esp. the guenons of genus Cercopithecus)

noun:

• bemoaning the frustration of reaching truth (for surplus of academic paths); being at a loss

noun:

• Hayagriva (manifestation of Avalokitesvara with an ornament in the shape of a horse's head) - Buddhism term ➜ 観世音

noun:

• young master (respectful way of referring to the son of a high-ranking person) - honorific language

noun:

• golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); cuttlefish (any species in the family Sepiidae)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to look out over (far into the distance); to command a view of

noun:

• salt
• crest of a wave; flowerlike patterns on waves in the Japan Sea in winter

noun:

• knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; fetters
• arrest
• rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

noun:

• partner (esp. in manzai); companion ［相方］ ➜ 漫才
• partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to turn out just as one wished; to play into the hands (of)

noun:

• rule allowing the clear winner of a bout to touch down first to avoid injury - Sumo term

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• brimming with fighting spirit; being strong in the will to fight; burning with combativeness - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• enjoying great popularity; receiving widespread high praise; being a great success with the public - four character idiom