noun:

• someone who is fast asleep - archaism

noun:

• flatterer; someone skilled at flattery

noun:

• footprints; trail (of someone)

expression / adjective:

• ignoring someone completely - idiom

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election ➜ 特別国会

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)

noun:

• making the numbers balance; fixing the numbers; number-juggling; making up the numbers (e.g. to form a majority); taking tally; number-crunching

noun:

• counter selling; face-to-face selling; person-to-person selling

expression / adjective:

• having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end; at one's wit's end

noun:

• compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products); in this company's comparison
• as I see it; by my estimate - colloquialism

noun:

• penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• penitence sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• guidebook to penitence - Buddhism term

noun:

• son (of others); boy; young master - honorific language
• green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

expression / godan ~る verb:

• for tears to gather in one's eyes; for tears to well up in one's eyes

expression:

• to put new wine into old wineskins; to put new wine into old bottles - idiom - obscure term

noun:

• mysteries of one's master's art
• robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); "transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)" [figurative] - original meaning - Buddhism term

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

noun / ~の noun:

• flowers in full bloom; time of year in which flowers are in full bloom
• the age at which someone (esp. a woman) is at the peak of their beauty
• booming or peaking (in popularity)

noun:

• chilled syrup; soft drink of malt syrup mixed with boiling water, ginger juice, grated ginger, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon (used as a refreshing summer drink, similar to ginger ale) - Food term ➜ 飴湯

noun:

• cold-suffering bird; kankucho; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes - Buddhism term
• (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori - idiom - derogatory term - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• conversion; reform; correcting someone's conduct

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring (somebody); ostracizing; leaving (someone) out - colloquialism

noun:

• waiting in place of someone else

noun:

• retreat; dwelling for someone in seclusion