noun:

• continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; remaining on one's guard; being prepared for a counterstroke
• follow-through (e.g. in archery)
• lingering affection; attachment; regret; regrets; reluctance - orig. meaning

noun:

• single-pronged vajra; tokko; dokko; copper or iron implement, pointed at both ends, used in esoteric Buddhist rituals - Buddhism term
• cloth of a tokko pattern

noun:

• dumpling cooked in miso served during the dog days of summer at the imperial court
• accompaniments for a rice dish - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ おかず
• wooden pestle - secret language of court ladies - archaism - female language ➜ すりこぎ
• menstrual period - archaism

expression / noun:

• person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality
• The Emperor's New Clothes (tale by Hans Christian Andersen) - orig. meaning

noun:

• name of store; trade name (esp. of a sole proprietorship)
• stage name (e.g. of actor)

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes

adverb:

• tentatively; for the time being
• just in case
• once

noun:

• large-size refuse (e.g. furniture, electrical goods); oversized garbage; bulky rubbish
• useless man about the house; husband that is retired and considered a nuisance - colloquialism - derogatory term

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave a note or document behind; to leave half-written; to leave out

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to sell out
• to sell widely; to sell on a large scale

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sensitive to smoke

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to dislike the company of (someone); to consider (someone) a burden or nuisance

noun:

• family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

noun:

• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts; the sound produced by such drums - Sumo term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change; to alter
• to run counter to; to go against; to break (one's word)
• to make a mistake (in); to err

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom

noun:

• banishment (to a location far from the capital); the harshest of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• adding a crowning touch of beauty (to); giving added luster (to); crowning beauty (honor, grace) with even greater glory - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (similar to) perinatal; period from around the 28th week of pregnancy to a week after the baby is born

expression / ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• (a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs

noun:

• great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family) - archaism
• crime against the imperial family (or a shrine dedicated to them, etc.) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• bamboo wall-top spikes (or wood, iron); spikes placed at the top of a wall to repel thieves

noun / ~する noun:

• quitting one's job as a government official to return to live quietly in one's own native region