suffix:

• through; throughout; in the course of
• all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• fastidiousness; enthusiasm for one thing; meticulousness; monomania; obsession
• susceptibility for a stiffening of the shoulders

noun:

• cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive (drastic) measure; cutting the (Gordian) knot - four character idiom

noun:

• vajra (indestructible substance); diamond; adamantine
• thunderbolt; Indra's weapon; Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth

noun:

• reader (person)
• person who reads the cards (in karuta games) ➜ 取り手
• composer (of a poem) - also written as 詠み手 ➜ 詠み手【よみて】

noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing (or dropping) off, then later picking up or going to meet (the same person)

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

noun / ~する noun:

• closing up shop (for the day)
• stopping business; going out of business

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:

• lucky day
• an unspecified day of the month, used on diplomas, proclamations, etc.

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