noun:

• a purveyor to the government - four character idiom

noun:

• person given as a reference; witness
• potential suspect; person of interest
• witness

expression:

• Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead) ➜ 閻魔
• (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

noun:

• marks in a water channel

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to commit a crime; to commit a sin

noun:

• play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

noun:

• signature or written seal at the end of a document

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• a small leak will sink a great ship - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a pung by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to miss a chance; to fail to do - usu. a suffix after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• salt pickling of a turnip or daikon, incl. leaves and stalk

adverb / ~と adverb:

• with a splash - onomatopoeia

noun:

• desk with a tier of drawers on one side

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put a thing on top of another; to cover; to lay something on

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give a blunt answer; to be curt - idiom

noun:

• Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society (1999)

noun:

• NTT permission-to-procure-a-phone-line

expression:

• This world is uncertain (cruel) like a burning house - four character idiom

noun:

• inscription on a temple bell

noun:

• ninja weapon disguised as a pair of garden shears

noun:

• ridges on a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• ridged pattern in building

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a cutting remark; to kill someone with a short blade [literal] - idiom

noun:

• interior closed room with heavily plastered walls in a Heian palace ➜ 寝殿造り