noun:

• speedrun; playing through a video game for additional challenge (e.g. as quickly as possible, to obtain the highest score, without using a certain weapon, etc.)

noun:

• band

~する noun:

• to perform in a band; to create a (pop) band

noun:

• The Bund (Shanghai, China)

noun / ~する noun:

• trying the food at various restaurants; eating tour
• walking while eating; eating while walking

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after

noun:

• Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be commonly referred to as; as people say; as the saying is; they say ➜ 所謂【いわゆる】

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to leave to chance; to resign oneself to one's fate; to leave the rest to heaven - idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to open (e.g. path); to clear (the way); to break up (e.g. land) ➜ 開く【ひらく】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make one's way in the world; to earn one's living; to live - idiom

adverbial noun:

• due to the nature of one's job; because of one's line of work

expression:

• that being the case; in that case; if that's how it's going to go

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand

noun:

• Rustication Movement; movement in China in 1957 to get people to move to the countryside

noun / ~する noun:

• letter (e.g. of complaint); letter to the editor; letter from a reader
• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.) ➜ 投稿

~する verb (spec.):

• to penetrate; to sink in
• to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
• to do throughout (e.g. the night)

noun / adverb:

• (being) about to start out; (being) about to leave - usu. 出掛けに, etc. ➜ お出掛け
• having just left; (being) on the way

noun:

• (pair of) wooden doors in the interior of a home
• door to a pavilion in a Heian period palace ➜ 寝殿造

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to show one's age (e.g. to start creaking at the joints); to wear out (e.g. machinery) ➜ ガタガタ

expression:

• I thought so; I suspected as much; Just as I thought; Now you are talking; That's the spirit - colloquialism

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

adverb:

• exactly; surely; certainly; just - esp. 正に when in kanji
• right then; just then; at that moment
• just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening) - esp. 将に when in kanji
• duly; naturally - esp. 当に when in kanji

noun:

• warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り

noun / ~する noun:

• building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses

noun:

• black tree monitor (Varanus beccarii, species of monitor lizard from the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia); Beccari's monitor