noun:

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

expression:

• if two ride upon a horse, one must sit behind; when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; two great rivals cannot coexist - proverb

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

noun:

• turning over; flipping over
• reply; response
• marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese ➜ 返り点
• lapel

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down
• to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to nominate
• to infer; to conclude; to conjecture; to surmise
• to think something through; to ponder deeply

expression:

• better than a poke in the eye; better than none at all; better than nothing - idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to hunt (animals)
• to search (for a criminal)
• to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms); to pick (berries)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning - idiom
• to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hide; to conceal
• to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard
• to become quiet and inconspicuous

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to pretend not to know; to feign ignorance ➜ 空とぼける
• to tell a lie; to lie

~の noun / noun:

• first-class; top grade; foremost; top-notch; leading
• characteristic; peculiar; unique

noun:

• school (e.g. of a performance art)
• one flag; one banner; one streamer - also written as 一旒

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cause; to induce; to bring about; to provoke
• to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person) - 引き起こす, etc. only

noun:

• warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
• man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer ［さぶらい］ - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; communion of mind with mind - four character idiom

noun:

• non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out - four character idiom
• throwing a ball as hard as one can - Baseball term

noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

noun:

• floral raft; flower raft; flower petals fallen on water, resembling a raft - poetical term
• Helwingia japonica (species of shrub) - usually written using kana alone
• oily perfume applied under white makeup - archaism

prefix:

• surplus- (attaches to start of Sino-Japanese words); excess-; over-
• per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents)

noun / ~の noun:

• reflection; image; picture (e.g. on a television); shot
• video; film; footage; clip; video recording
• image in one's mind; mental picture

noun / ~する noun:

• moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement
• advance (work, procedure, etc); advancement; progress
• progress (of a disease); disease progression

noun:

• progression (harmonic, melodic) - Music term

noun:

• constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); disposition; tendency
• character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up; nature; culture

noun:

• kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play ➜ 本狂言・間狂言
• kabuki play; kabuki performance
• make-believe; ruse; trick