noun:

• pledge; vow; promise
• (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse
• destiny; fate; karma

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind ➜ ど忘れ

noun:

• board (across a ditch, etc.)
• step; tread; footboard; running board
• pedal (of an organ, etc.); treadle

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

expression:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs) ➜ 犬猿

noun:

• store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business

noun:

• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - Buddhism term

adjectival noun:

• seeming to be for a certain reason; seeming to indicate there are special circumstances; seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; to have evidence; to get a lead - idiom
• to grab by the tail [literal]

noun:

• crookedness; something not right; something out of the ordinary; something unpleasant; something disgusting; unlawfulness; something unhappy; calamity

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to differ; to be different
• to run counter to
• to change (into something out of the ordinary)

noun:

• the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kencho-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jochi-ji, Jomyo-ji) ➜ 京都五山

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hit; to strike; to smash; to hammer in; to drive in
• to throw; to toss; to cast
• to mix
• to wear (sword, etc.); to carry

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to draw in; to take in; to retract
• to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)

noun / ~する noun:

• changing one's attitude; turning over a new leaf; getting a fresh start - four character idiom

adverb / noun:

• finishing writing, work, etc. at a stroke (stretch); knocking something off without a break - four character idiom

noun:

• karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle) ➜ 唐破風

noun:

• large sake cup

noun / ~する noun:

• gulping down a drink; taking a swig at something

noun:

• low entrance (usually, but not always, to a teahouse) with a tiled archway overhead

noun:

• chocolate given by a boy to a girl on Valentine's day - obscure term

noun:

• fabless; without fabrication facilities (esp. a semiconductor company that does not own a factory) - From English "fabless"

noun:

• downstage right pillar (on a noh stage) used as a positioning guidepost for actors

noun:

• loading goods on a truck - From English "vanning"
• remodelling a station wagon, light van, etc.

expression / adjective:

• unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place - idiom

noun:

• futon (quilted Japanese-style mattress laid out on the floor)
• round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)