prefix:

• indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)

noun:

• short end of the stick; short straw; unlucky number; blank; bad bargain

noun:

• flat part on the top of the cranium

noun:

• circulation of the blood; apprehension

noun / ~の noun:

• planting in the ground

godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:

• to take the name of; to call oneself ➜ 称する
• to pretend; to feign; to purport

noun:

• the instant of death - Buddhism term ➜ 四有

noun:

• starting lines in the ring - Sumo term

noun:

• corporate patronage of the arts and culture - From French "mécénat"

expression:

• the husband is always the last to know; everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband - idiom

noun:

• the L-word (i.e. love) ➜ 惚れる

noun:

• character traits of the people of a prefecture

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to fly in the sky

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

noun:

• Speaker of the House (US, etc.)

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

noun:

• petty official responsible for collecting public gossip and presenting it to the king (in ancient China) ➜ 稗史

noun:

• Order of the Precious Crown, Ripple

noun / ~する noun:

• fighting to the death (with swords) - sensitive

noun:

• the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology - obscure term ➜ 麒麟・鳳凰・霊亀・応竜

expression:

• if that's the case; that being the case ➜ だと

noun:

• self deprecating first person pronoun used by the elderly - archaism - male language

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• thicker towards the end; club-shaped

noun:

• international order of the seas; public order at sea - Law term