expression:

• it is so; it is as such - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• what if (as in "what if" stories)

noun:

• errand; mission; going as envoy ➜ 使いにやる
• messenger; bearer; errand boy; errand girl
• familiar spirit ➜ 使い魔

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• use; usage; user; trainer; tamer; charmer - often read as づかい when used as a suffix ➜ 魔法使い

noun:

• bloodworm (Halla okadai, species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait) ➜ 揺蚊
• red mite (Trombicula akamushi); chigger mite; harvest mite ➜ 恙虫

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hit the bull's-eye
• to go as expected; to succeed (e.g. a plan)

noun:

• science (inc. mathematics, medicine, etc.); natural science ➜ 文科
• science department (university); science course
• science (as a school subject)

noun:

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

noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles

noun:

• abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come - four character idiom
• unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity - Buddhism term

expression:

• missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing [literal]

noun:

• Zanclus (sole genus of the family Zanclidae containing the moorish idol as its sole extant species)

noun:

• rice bought and sold on a rice exchange
• rice used to produce unrefined sake
• rice paid as rent

expression:

• take care of it; I'll leave it up to you; do as you see fit ➜ 計らう

noun:

• kasaya; monk's stole - Buddhism term
• wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder) - abbreviation ➜ 袈裟懸け

noun:

• littering, esp. such things as empty cans, cigarette butts, dog faeces, etc. along roads, in parks, etc.; careless tossing away

noun:

• the Four Home Provinces (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, and Kawachi); obsolete in 757 when Izumi was established as a separate province from Kawachi - archaism ➜ 五畿内

noun:

• driving away moles by hitting the ground with straw bundles prepared by children (esp. as an annual event on January 15th)

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)

noun:

• mess; sorry state; plight; sad sight - derogatory term

suffix:

• -ways; -wards - indicates direction
• in the act of ...; just as one is ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
• manner of ...; way of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 様【さま】

noun:

• the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts) - Buddhism term ➜ 難行道

noun:

• woman's loincloth (worn as a kimono underskirt) ➜ 腰巻き
• single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath) ➜ 湯帷子

noun:

• physician in private practice
• town doctor; doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• beating of a drum as a signal to announce the opening (beginning) of an event (theatrical performance, festival, etc.)