noun:

• sign staked to a building's ridgepole at construction time stating the building's donor, builder, date, reason for construction, etc.

noun:

• woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute ➜ 商売人

expression:

• persevering through something difficult makes one stronger; whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger; slow but steady wins the race - proverb

noun:

• Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

expression / noun:

• pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

expression / adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow - four character idiom

expression:

• paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reaping what you sow - idiom

noun:

• amicus curiae; friend of the court - Law term

noun:

• structure; construction; appearance
• posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance
• readiness; determination; preparedness
• kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji) - e.g. 門

noun:

• pilaf topped with bechemal or other cheese-based sauce, then oven baked - named after the Doria family of Genoa - From Italian "Doria"
• casserole dish dedicated to the Doria family, often with green, white and red colours

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; to be packed to the hilt [literal] ➜ 切羽【せっぱ】

noun:

• 100% buckwheat noodles; buckwheat noodles made from buckwheat flour only, without the addition of wheat flour ➜ 生そば【なまそば】

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a risk for someone; to endanger oneself for someone; to gather chestnuts from the fire [literal] - orig. from the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de La Fontaine - idiom

noun:

• general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of North Korea); secretary-general - obscure term ➜ 書記長・総書記

noun:

• expansion (in space) of a sales area; increase in the number of beds (in a hospital, etc.)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hoist one's sail when the wind is fair; to get one's time to shine - idiom

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush; position of the arm used for a particular type of calligraphy

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)

noun:

• phoenix (bird of Egyptian mythology) - From Latin
• phoenix (any palm tree of genus Phoenix, incl. the date palm)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

godan ~す verb:

• to drive into the ground (e.g. car); to ride to death (e.g. horse)