noun:

• redeemable loyalty points (from a retailer) - From English "shop point"

noun:

• bath at a temple for the poor, sick and prisoners

noun:

• promise to repay a debt after achieving promotion or success

expression / noun:

• fishing, esp. using a net or trap; catching fish

noun:

• steamed bun shaped like a loach catcher ➜ どじょう掬い【どじょうすくい】

noun / ~する noun:

• burying a dead person's personal belongings with the body

noun:

• discount aimed specifically at those attending a demonstration

adverb:

• on rare occasions; once in a blue moon

noun:

• iron sight (on a gun, etc.)

noun:

• judicial review by a higher court without introducing new evidence - Law term

noun:

• regular respondent to a periodical or radio program - slang

noun:

• advertising insert (e.g. in a newspaper); inserted flyer

noun:

• rain symbol (e.g. in a weather forecast)

expression / noun:

• hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal [literal] - usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government - idiom - derogatory term

noun:

• kite with a (kanji or kana) character written on it

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

noun:

• Later Han Dynasty (of China; 25-220 CE) - esp. ごかん
• Later Han Dynasty (of China; 947-950 CE) - esp. こうかん

expression:

• curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)
• skill
• scope of one's power
• one's intentions; one's plan
• one's hand (mahjong, card games, etc.)

noun:

• the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
• varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ

noun:

• old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
• Meiji period women's hairstyle
• type of dance in kabuki ［揚げ巻・揚巻］
• knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) ［揚げ巻・揚巻］ - Sumo term
• constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion ➜ 廃れる【すたれる】

noun:

• The Three Jewels; The Triple Gem; Triratna; The Three Treasures; Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns - Buddhism term

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to spring out; to surge
• to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.)
• to feel emotions form (joy, bravery, etc.)
• to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

noun:

• picture of the world; world picture; image of the world; Weltbild