noun:

• photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions ➜ カメコ

noun / ~する noun:

• tuck at the shoulder (of a child's clothes); shoulder tuck ➜ 肩揚げを下ろす【かたあげをおろす】・肩揚げが取れる【かたあげがとれる】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to taste and compare several dishes (or foods) of the same type

noun:

• western Japan; Japan west of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line, i.e. the Chūbu region and westward ➜ 糸魚川静岡構造線・東日本

noun:

• milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus, species of requiem shark found in the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific) ➜ ミルクシャーク

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to discuss; to talk about; to deal with (a topic) ➜ 論ずる
• to argue; to dispute ➜ 論ずる
• to take into consideration; to make an issue of - usu. in negative sentences ➜ 論ずる

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to discuss; to talk about; to deal with (a topic) ➜ 論じる【ろんじる】
• to argue; to dispute ➜ 論じる【ろんじる】
• to take into consideration; to make an issue of - usu. in negative sentences ➜ 論じる【ろんじる】

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) ➜ 御用人
• useful person

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to fold (clothes, umbrella)
• to close (a shop, business)
• to vacate

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to think about; to take into consideration
• to ponder; to reflect; to try to come at a conclusion; to think over (something)
• to intend; to decide (to do); to plan
• to come up with; to devise; to scheme
• to predict; to anticipate; to expect
• to suspect; to doubt
• to consider (somebody to be something); to look on

noun:

• ancient language; ancient word
• ancient Japanese language; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period - Linguistics term

expression / noun:

• Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling) - four character idiom

noun:

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

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be ready and waiting for; to be on the alert for - from 手に薬煉を引く ➜ 薬煉

noun:

• (ceremonial) bow used to drive off evil; toy bow and arrow

noun:

• backslapping; a smile and a tap on the shoulder [literal]
• backslapper; someone who smiles and gives you a slap on the shoulder; someone who wins people over

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

noun:

• the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

godan ~る verb:

• to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close ➜ なりかける

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to proceed according to; to repair to; to betake oneself to
• to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.)
• to abide by; to agree to; to consent to; to obey - archaism

noun:

• clothes and obi; full court dress