expression:

• ladies and gentlemen!; roll up, roll up!

noun:

• mountain-valley winds; mountain and valley breeze

noun:

• home and country
• state; country
• home town

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack
• to bloom; to unfold; to spread out
• to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)
• to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to hold (meeting, etc.); to give; to open
• to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.); to open (a new business); to set up; to establish; to start
• to open (ports, borders, etc.)
• to open (an account)
• to open up (new land, path, etc.); to clear; to develop ➜ 拓く
• to open (a file, etc.) - IT term
• to extract (root); to reduce (equation) - Mathematics term
• to cut open (fish) - as 魚を開く - Food term
• to change (kanji into hiragana)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to flare (e.g. skirt)
• to slacken (into a poor posture) - as 体が開く, 肩が開く, etc. - Sports term

noun / suffix noun:

• kneading; gloss; tempering

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste)

noun:

• parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals - orig. 邌り, usu. お練り - Shintō term ➜ 練り歩く【ねりあるく】・お練り【おねり】

noun:

• single crime consisting of multiple independent crimes (i.e. robbery, which consists of theft and threats or use of violence)

noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

noun:

• call of a wild goose
• wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus) - usually written using kana alone
• tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro); high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro) ➜ 茎茶・玉露

expression:

• a little while later; for a little while; some time later; for some time; presently

noun:

• black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people

noun:

• namahage; folklore demons of the Oga Peninsula (villagers dress up as them on New Year's Eve and frighten children)

noun:

• kiss and cry; area in an ice rink where figure skaters wait for their marks to be announced - Sports term

noun:

• high-ranking noh actor ➜ 能太夫
• head of a school of noh performance
• high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
• jōruri narrator; manzai narrator ➜ 浄瑠璃・万歳【まんざい】
• female role actor in kabuki ➜ 女形
• low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine ➜ 御師
• lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) ［太夫］

noun:

• Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures
• Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

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:

• inner pleat; the raising of fabric up in the middle to marry bottom edges of yukata and kimono

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

noun:

• Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China from 304 to 439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period

noun:

• type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later
• being dead drunk; being very drunk - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• Kyoto's children
• Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext

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:

• parent; parents; mother and father ［親］
• dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker ［親］ ➜ 子【こ】
• founder; inventor
• (pet) owner ［親］

~の noun / noun:

• key; parent (organization); main ［親］

noun:

• ancestor; forefather

noun:

• drawer
• withdrawal (of money from an account) - not 抽斗,抽匣
• variety of knowledge and experience useful for handling things impromptu - not 抽斗,抽匣

noun / ~する noun:

• squeeze (play) - Baseball term
• (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward

noun:

• goldlined spinefoot (Siganus guttatus, species of Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific rabbitfish); orange-spotted spinefoot