adverbial noun:

• like; similar to; same as ➜ 如し

noun:

• grass and straw (as fodder for horses, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• someone who one considers as an elder sister - honorific language ➜ 妹分

noun:

• mountain worship; religion that worships mountains as sacred

expression:

• pleasantly cool (as in the arrival of autumn) - archaism ➜ 秋涼【しゅうりょう】

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• regarding as very likely (to win, succeed, etc.)

noun:

• mochi rice cakes used as offering - archaism ➜ 供え餅

noun:

• Edo-period lump of silver used as currency ➜ 豆板銀【まめいたぎん】

noun:

• doing as one is told; yes-man ➜ 言いなり【いいなり】

noun:

• (a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

adverb / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• a little; partially; somewhat; slightly; semi-; -ish; on the ... side; a short time; a while

noun:

• batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a kong by adding a tile drawn from the wall to a declared pung - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 槓

noun / ~する noun:

• entering a track (of a train); arrival of a train (at a platform)
• passing the post (horseracing); crossing the finish line

expression:

• a wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost [literal] - proverb

noun:

• water offered to God; water drunk before an altar to symbolize the making of a vow
• miracle-working water
• water which gathers in the nodes of bamboo after falling as rain at noon on the 5th day of the 5th month (lunar calendar), thought to be effective when used in medicines

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to manage; to control; to maneuver; to steer
• to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument)
• to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
• to manipulate (a person, public opinion, etc.); to pull the strings; to control from the shadows; to mastermind

noun:

• cheap wines and unpalatable dishes (a modest (self-deprecating) way of offering a meal to a guest) - four character idiom

noun:

• simultaneously running for a seat in a single-member constituency and a seat in a proportionally representated constituency

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since

noun:

• doing as one is told; yes-man

expression:

• in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to

suffix:

• day (as in holiday)

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• daytime ➜ デーゲーム

noun:

• fittings such as sliding doors, fusuma, shoji, etc.; fixtures

noun:

• yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors) - From Sanskrit "yaksa"