noun:

• an utai (noh chant) piece for recitation
• accompanied singing in which the singing is emphasized over the instrumental part (emphasised)

noun:

• year-end gift ➜ 歳暮・お中元
• end of the year; year end ➜ 歳暮【せいぼ】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to crowd (a house); to throng to (a door)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to prove a loss; to be a disadvantage; to not pay

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to stand on a podium
• to teach; to be a teacher

noun:

• viewing noh; seeing a noh play; going to a noh theater

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a cross to bear; to carry a heavy burden - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end

noun:

• anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster) ➜ 大蚊
• harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)

temporal noun:

• New Year's call; beginning of the year; New Year's greetings

noun:

• small amount of silk (i.e. only one foot of cloth)
• unimportant painting; trivial work of art

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be separated (of clothing); to be exposed; to be wide open
• to stand with one's limbs apart; to block the way ➜ 立ちはだかる

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

godan ~む verb:

• to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid
• to come to grips with; to get to the core of

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter)
• to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality)
• to take part (in some work); to hang about; to bother (someone)

adjectival noun / noun:

• grazing; skimming; almost touching; passing within inches; being within a whisker; shaving close
• barely; just; narrowly; by a slim margin

expression:

• don't judge a book by its cover; a mountain is not to be honoured just because it is high [literal] - proverb

noun:

• assistant in a duel (e.g. a cockfight, poetry contest, etc.) (Heian period)
• older male in an homosexual relationship ➜ 念者

noun:

• steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• remainder; remnant; rest; balance; surplus; remains (of a meal); leftovers ［あまり］

adverb:

• not very; not much - with neg. sentence
• too much; excessively; overly - esp. as あまりに(も) ➜ あまりに・の余り【のあまり】

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• extreme; great; severe; tremendous; terrible

suffix noun:

• more than; over ［あまり］

noun / suffix noun:

• child
• young (animal) ➜ 仔【こ】
• young woman; young geisha - also 娘
• offshoot
• interest ➜ 元も子もない
• new shares - abbreviation ➜ 子株

noun:

• player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.) ➜ 親【おや】

noun / suffix noun:

• bird egg - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (often of young women) - after a noun or -masu stem

noun / ~する noun:

• shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy - Economics term
• softening
• release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)

noun:

• expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime ➜ 連座制

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet
• to recover; (of the market) to improve

noun:

• province-district-neighbourhood system (system of administrative divisions under the ritsuryo; 1 neighbourhood=~50 homes, 1 district=2-20 neighbourhoods) ➜ 郷里制・律令制