noun:

• enclosure; fence; wall; pen; paling
• storage (of fruit, vegetables, etc.)
• partitioned area of a room for conducting tea ceremonies
• mistress - abbreviation ➜ 囲い者
• castle; strong defensive position - Shōgi term

noun:

• fallen scraps; scatterings
• leftovers; remainder; pickings; odds and ends

noun / ~の noun:

• student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.) - colloquialism - sensitive

noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】

expression:

• fighting (tilting at) windmills; working oneself up even though there really isn't anything to fight at - four character idiom
• single-person mimicking a wrestling match

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• Naso (genus of tropical marine surgeonfishes in the family Acanthuridae known as unicorn fishes due to a spike protruding from the forehead)

noun:

• 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain) ➜ 間日【まび】

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• new single (by a recording artist)
• person of marriageable age who remains single (e.g. to focus on their career) - From English

noun:

• elegance; grace; refinement; class; dignity

suffix:

• article; item

suffix / counter:

• counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant) - sometimes pronounced ぴん

~する noun:

• to master (a skill)

noun:

• proprietor; manager; owner; barkeeper
• leader; chief; head
• master (of arts, science, etc.)
• master (recording)
• master (device) ➜ スレーブ

noun:

• cut end; edge (of a page, etc.)
• small amount; small sum Antonym: 大口【おおぐち】
• beginning; clue
• tiger's den; jaws of death; dangerous place ➜ 虎口

noun:

• phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly") - e.g., じめじめ、ゆったり - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• writing with the brush in one's mouth

noun:

• foreword; preface
• affidavit; written confession (of a commoner in the Edo period)

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud

noun / ~する noun:

• turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering; musing; rumination (about a subject)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• puzzle ring; wire puzzle
• exercise where students link crossed hands in a circle and try working together and without letting go

noun:

• entrance exam for a university giving preference to persons who excel in one special field (skill); one-talent oriented entrance examination - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness - onomatopoeia ➜ きりっと
• cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible
• creaking of a door or oar

noun:

• artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit

noun:

• large bird
• peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish) - esp. 鵬 ➜ 鵬【ほう】
• fenghuang (Chinese phoenix) - esp. 鳳 and 凰 as male and female respectively ➜ 鳳凰

noun:

• seal; stamp - archaism
• depressing the string of a zither with one's left hand
• (in archery) left hand ➜ 引き手【ひきで】
• obstinacy; stubbornness

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切