noun:

• distinguished family; noted family; noble family
• family status in the Imperial Court ➜ 家格
• master (of a craft); expert

noun:

• wooden mosaic work; parquetry; wooden mosaic (e.g. on a piece of furniture); marquetry; marqueterie

noun:

• lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

noun:

• ko-on; ancient reading; reading of a kanji based on Zhou, Han and Wei dynasty Chinese

noun / ~する noun:

• building; construction
• group effort by Buddhist practitioners; group activities by a community (e.g. cleaning, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• running aground; stranding ➜ 座礁
• being disabled (of a tank, train, etc.); being put out of action

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to understand each other well; to call forth a response in another's heart; to relate to

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)

expression / adjective:

• talkative; loquacious; garrulous; voluble

expression:

• having a large family to support; having too many mouths to feed

noun:

• provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) ➜ 守【かみ】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

noun:

• gentle on the outside but tough on the inside; an iron hand in a velvet glove - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly - four character idiom

noun:

• one's mind; one's inner feelings; (a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it - four character idiom

noun:

• stone-roasted bibimbap; Korean style rice (bibimbap) heated in a stone pot

noun:

• scarab (Egyptian gemstone) - From French "scarabee"
• scarabeid (any of a group of beetles including the scarab beetle, Scarabeus sacer)

noun:

• deluded mind (a mind polluted with klesha, incapable of understanding the original essence of things) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun / ~する noun:

• lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term ➜ 総称

noun / ~する noun:

• total coverage; giving total coverage to the key figure(s) of a TV or film documentary ➜ 密着

noun:

• chaser; pursuer
• chaser; light drink (often just water) taken after a strong alcoholic drink

interjection:

• what the hell; oh, great!; son of a gun; holy mackerel; oh no!; holy cow!; damn!

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to knock at the gate
• to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

noun:

• inspection of a completed facility (esp. of radio stations as required under Japanese law); completion inspection

expression:

• not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work

noun:

• immaculate conception; virgin birth; tradition that Jesus was born to Mary although she was a virgin ➜ 処女受胎【しょじょじゅたい】