noun:

• four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
• four gods said to rule over the four directions ➜ 四神

noun:

• crow in the mountains
• jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) ➜ ハシブトガラス
• rook (species of crow, Corvus frugilegus) ➜ ミヤマガラス
• dark-skinned person - archaism - derogatory term

noun:

• customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues ➜ 八徳
• brothel; owner of a brothel

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to work hard; to toil; to moil; to keep one's nose to the grindstone; to slug away

noun:

• regular position (e.g. in sports team); normal position
• revealing a card in the upright position (tarot, etc.)

noun:

• empowering women; promoting women's contribution; removing obstacles to women's full participation in society and the workplace

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)
• to dry the bottom of a ship (to prevent insect damage)

noun:

• front facing display (e.g. books displayed on a shelf with the cover facing out); forward facing display ➜ 平積み【ひらづみ】・面出し【めんだし】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to elevate; to raise; to lift up
• to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ 凡そ【およそ】
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

noun:

• military administration; military government ➜ 民政
• government affairs relating to the military

noun:

• height of summer; high summer; hottest part of the summer

noun:

• the same room; sharing a room; sharers of a room

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick it out; to see it to the end

noun / ~する noun:

• success in life; advancement in life; rising in the world - four character idiom

noun:

• teacher - colloquialism - derogatory term
• previous ruler; previous lord; lord of the previous generation

godan ~む verb:

• to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be brief and to the point; to be succinct

noun:

• protection law; shield law; law for the protection of something ➜ オゾン層保護法【オゾンそうほごほう】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to balance the accounts
• to make consistent; to make coherent

noun:

• fate; destiny
• connection; tie; bond; origin
• pretext; justification
• hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】