noun:

• dominant character

noun / ~する noun:

• engage in ascetic practices with dauntless spirit - four character idiom

noun:

• friendly nation

noun:

• effective action - Physics term

noun:

• drawing hot water; person who draws hot water
• employee who pours clean hot water used for rinsing in a bathhouse
• ladle (esp. used in bath houses)

noun:

• postal service; post service

noun:

• bubbling spring; gushing spring; fountain

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to give and take; to make mutual concessions; to compromise

noun / ~の noun:

• having leaves and branches loaded with snow

noun:

• snow guard (to prevent snow from sliding off of a roof); snow stop ➜ 雪止め

noun:

• chivalrous person

expression:

• cram-free education; pressure-free education ➜ ゆとり

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to parboil; to scald

noun:

• spray of snow (smoke-like)

noun:

• friend's house; home of a friend

noun:

• corpus delicti

noun:

• visual flight

noun:

• championship tournament; finals

noun:

• emergency exit light; guide light ➜ 避難誘導灯

adjectival noun:

• materialistic

noun:

• pterygotes (winged insects)

noun:

• shoji with glass window behind a sliding bottom half

expression:

• it's hard to cut one's ties to close relatives even if they are wicked; you don't cut your finger off just because it's dirty [literal] - proverb

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term

noun:

• aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) ➜ アイアイ

noun:

• hades; realm of the dead