noun:

• the rounds of tradesmen going door to door
• route man; door-to-door tradesman; order taker; order-taking
• thief taker; secret policeman ➜ 岡っ引き

noun / adjectival noun:

• being proven guilty of a crime; having one's guilt for a crime made clear; (the) nature of offense being (becoming) clear - four character idiom

noun:

• bad deed which ultimately results in the creation of a good Buddhist - Buddhism term
• older person conducting a funeral service for a younger relative, in particular, a parent for a child

noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

noun:

• joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector; third sector [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)

noun:

• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871 CE) ［だんじょうだい］
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• blue poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda)
• the three blue poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to deceive; to falsify; to misrepresent; to cheat; to swindle; to tamper; to juggle; to manipulate
• to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties)
• to varnish over; to gloss over

noun:

• determined purpose
• an incredibly short span of time (i.e. the time occupied by a single thought) - Buddhism term
• a single repetition of a prayer (esp. in Jodo-shu) - Buddhism term ➜ 浄土宗

noun:

• impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch - four character idiom

noun:

• hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds) ➜ 下町・山手【やまて】
• place near the mountains ➜ 山手【やまて】

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits
• to kill viciously
• to victimize; to torment; to lay into; to give (someone) hell; to vilify

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview - From English "hero interview"

expression / ichidan verb:

• to twist a thread
• to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability - idiom - abbreviation ➜ 腕によりをかける

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to sprinkle; to strew
• to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.)
• to give the slip; to throw off; to shake off; to lose

noun:

• legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas
• soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy ➜ 大豆
• female genitalia (esp. the clitoris) - colloquialism
• kidney - colloquialism - usually written using kana alone - Food term

prefix noun:

• miniature; tiny
• child

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slip into for the purposes of sex (e.g. lover's house, hotel, red light district, etc.); to shack up with
• to shut oneself away at home (due to lack of money)