noun:

• (a) branch (of flowers); (a) cluster; (a) mass (of clouds)

noun:

• eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii) ➜ 強飯・姫飯
• first intercourse of the New Year
• loss of virginity; loss of maidenhead - slang

expression:

• size isn't everything; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle [literal] - proverb

godan ~す verb:

• to drink someone down; to drink someone under the table

noun:

• old Japanese court music from the Nara period ➜ 高麗楽

noun:

• old Japanese court music from the Nara period ➜ 右方高麗楽

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to pronounce kanji (using the native Japanese reading) ➜ 読む

noun / ~の noun:

• left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); the following

noun:

• protective covering for a book (often in the form of a folding case with clasps)

counter:

• counter for book covers

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to eat - male language
• to live; to make a living; to survive
• to bite; to sting (as insects do)
• to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
• to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
• to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
• to consume time and-or resources
• to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event) - colloquialism
• to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time - male language - vulgar

noun:

• summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month) - Buddhism term

expression:

• the end of the line; the end of the road; curtains

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

noun:

• shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
• rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

noun / ~の noun:

• the cause of a disease

noun:

• the kindness of a teacher

noun:

• the instruction of a teacher

noun:

• the midst of a campaign

noun:

• the strokes of a character

noun:

• a sense of the seasons

noun:

• the death of a scholar - honorific language - obscure term

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

noun:

• ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)