expression / noun:

• gossip
• corner of the mouth

noun:

• wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land
• The Wasteland (poem by T.S. Eliot)

noun / ~する noun:

• cough; hawking
• laughing and talking at the same time; speak laughing

interjection:

• yes ➜ はい

noun:

• wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the sea of Japan

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep
• to give (someone) the slip

noun:

• person or organization (esp. yakuza) in charge of solving problems caused by subordinates - slang
• member of a biker gang driving behind the rest (in charge of keeping the police away from the other members) - slang ➜ 暴走族

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

noun:

• Chinese lizard's tail (Saururus chinensis)
• 11th day after the summer solstice; last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

noun / adjectival noun:

• calmness; stillness; tranquility

noun:

• calmness of the heart; enlightenment ［じゃくじょう］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• England ➜ イングランド
• Great Britain and the Netherlands

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to miss a meal
• to lose the means to make one's livelihood

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to defeat - idiom ➜ 裏かく
• to pierce something all the way through

noun:

• crib sheet; cheat sheet - From English "cunning paper"
• large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc.

expression / noun:

• flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; passage of time; stream of time
• current of the times; trend of the times

noun:

• quadruple time; four-four time; common time - Music term
• the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum) - Music term ➜ 囃子【はやし】・笛【ふえ】・大鼓【おおつづみ】・小鼓【こつづみ】・太鼓【たいこ】

noun:

• there; that situation; that occasion
• the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there

noun:

• everyday language
• The Tale of the Heike - abbreviation ➜ 平家物語

noun:

• traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets ➜ 羽織
• livery coat ➜ 印半纏
• half the sky ［半天］
• mid-air; middle of the sky ［半天］

noun:

• industrial reserve force
• the ranks of the unemployed

ichidan verb / expression:

• to be out of focus
• to be off the point; to not have got the point

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切

noun:

• thank you gift; gift given as thanks for a favor or for attending a funeral, etc.
• gift sent from a locality to a tax payer as part of the "furusato nozei" tax scheme ➜ ふるさと納税

noun:

• God's son (in Christianity) ［御子］
• child of the emperor

noun:

• soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times
• Chinese soldiers stationed to protect remote regions of the country during the Tang dynasty ［ぼうじん］

noun:

• stairs - はし refers to the stairs leading from a building to a garden ➜ 階段
• stairs at the front of a noh stage ［きざはし］