noun:

• Protector General; Tang-period Chinese official in charge of the local Protectorate General ➜ 都護府
• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position) ➜ 按察使

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow stiff
• to be absorbed in; to be devoted to; to be a fanatic; to elaborate

noun:

• Health and Sports Day (national holiday; second Monday in October); Health-Sports Day; Sports Day

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be a topic of conversation; to be made much of
• to be taken in

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play innocent; to have a blank facial expression
• to play the fool
• to be in one's dotage

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt
• to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to treat
• to send; to forward to

noun:

• public opinion; public eye; (in) the eyes of others
• discerning eye; an eye (for sth)
• perspective; way of looking at things; point of view

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be related; to be connected; to be joined together
• to result in; to lead to; to bring about

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand; to rise; to stand up ［立つ］
• to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position) ［立つ］
• to depart (on a plane, train, etc.) - usu. 発つ

noun / ~する noun:

• purchase; buying; buying out

noun / ~する noun / transitive:

• buying used articles as a company; trade-in; buy back

noun / ~する noun:

• purchase on a no-return policy

noun:

• lump-sum payment; flat fee

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise ➜ 釜を掘る
• to crash a car into the back of another (usu. used in the passive voice); to rear-end

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to set somebody to work in an arrogant fashion; to push somebody around; to indicate by pointing one's chin [literal] ➜ 頤で人を使う【あごでひとをつかう】
• to chatter; to jaw; to jabber - slang

expression / ichidan verb:

• to set one's hand to; to start work on
• to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion)
• to have sexual relations; to have an affair

adjective:

• terrible; dreadful - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific - colloquialism ➜ 凄い
• to a great extent; vast (in numbers) - colloquialism ➜ 凄い

noun:

• type Japanese folkloric monster (yokai), thought to be a trio of weasels who appear in a whirlwind to cut their victim
• cut caused by whirlwind

expression:

• metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed) - Buddhism term

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to market (something); to feature (something to sell); to trade in (something); to securitize

noun:

• middle point; median point ［ちゅうてん］
• middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)