noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning

noun:

• pounding down earth around the roots of a tree
• adding short branches of flowers to the base of an arrangement in ikebana

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• women working in military brothels (esp. those forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII); comfort women [literal] - euphemism ➜ 従軍慰安婦

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• treasure chest (in the story of Urashima Taro); Urashima's casket; Pandora's box
• important secret that is not easily revealed to others

noun:

• wearing one's pants low (so that they hang from the hip rather than the waist); pants worn in such a manner - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• "benefit-your-locality" tax scheme; system in which taxpayers can choose to divert part of their residential tax to a specified local government

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fence; to wall in
• to besiege; to lay siege to
• to play (go, shogi, etc.)

noun:

• stay in hospital; hospital stay

noun:

• land investment; investment in land

godan ~る verb:

• to give in; to give up - from 妥協 - slang

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to be covered in grass; to be grassy; to be verdant

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• in the end (after a long process); finally; after all; at last - esp. 〜したあげく

noun:

• last line (of a renga) ➜ 発句

noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)

expression:

• Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha; prayer for rebirth in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom

noun:

• wooden doll with Japanese costumes made from cloth with the edges tucked into grooves in the wood; kimekomi doll

noun:

• tea gathering (for the tea ceremony)
• some matter concerning tea
• family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors

noun:

• Pindola; Pindola Bharadvaja (one of four Arhats asked by the Buddha to remain in the world to propagate Buddhist law) - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb:

• to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve - slang
• (in an online multiplayer game) to camp - slang

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to be left in the dust of; to play second fiddle (to); to take second billing (to)