expression:

• things depend on how you use them; all things have their uses when they are used in the right way - proverb

noun:

• dried small sardines, etc. used to make fish stock ➜ 煮干し
• person in bank transfer scam whose role it is to withdraw the cash - slang

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to sit down (and bask); to sit-in (in protest)

noun:

• workshop ［さいくじょ］ ➜ 工房
• Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies)
• Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.

noun:

• taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony)
• paper used for writing tanka

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to think (only used to speak of others) - honorific language
• to turn one's attention toward (only used to speak of others); to have feelings for (only used to speak of others)
• to honour the target of one's emotions

noun:

• every single word and phrase; word by word - four character idiom

noun:

• kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc. - Food term

noun:

• revision seal; correction seal (special seal used to indicate a correction in an official document)

noun:

• Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

noun:

• dropping; losing - abbreviation
• missing item; something one forgot to write down
• trap
• wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed
• conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
• metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi ➜ 落とし掛け

noun:

• column (e.g. in newspaper); stand-alone feature article framed by a box

noun / ~する noun:

• committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• ura-nage (in judo, an over-the-head throw performed by rolling backwards) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole - obsolete term

noun:

• 1585 edict by Toyotomi Hideyoshi which banned war between feudal lords in Japan

noun:

• district; quarter
• enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork
• red-light district

prefix / suffix:

• wide and empty ［廓］

noun:

• Lolita fashion; fashion style characterized by frilly dresses, knee socks and bonnets - From English

noun:

• Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software

noun:

• transportation by water (e.g. by ship)

noun / ~の noun:

• practice by repetition; learning by rote