conjunction / expression:

• to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that

noun:

• handwriting; autograph; authorization; authorisation ➜ お墨付き
• certificate; certified document; paper with signature of the shogun or lord

noun:

• principal occupation; main job
• professional; an expert; specialist

pronoun:

• I (of a government official, etc.); me

noun / ~の noun:

• goods piled beneath; lower layer
• lowest social strata; bottom (of the ladder); low rank; obscurity

expression / noun:

• fiery chariot (which carries the souls of sinners into hell) - Buddhism term ➜ 火車
• desperate financial situation; dire straits - idiom

noun:

• ritual prayer; invocation of the gods participating in a rite - Shintō term
• congratulatory address ［しゅくし］ ➜ 祝辞【しゅくじ】

~の noun / adjectival noun / ~する noun / noun:

• superficial; shallow

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• frivolous; careless; thoughtless

noun / ~する noun:

• sliding along the surface of something; being slippery

noun:

• overhang
• poster; placard; notice ➜ 貼り出し
• extra third or fourth wrestler of certain rank - Sumo term

noun:

• an unsettled course of action; (orders or laws) being revised often with no guiding principles - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• taking care of one's health
• recuperation
• covering (with a protective material); coating
• curing (concrete)

noun:

• sewamono (in kabuki, etc., a domestic drama about ordinary people, esp. of the Edo period)

noun:

• land-locked variety of red-spotted masu trout (Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae); amago ➜ 皐月鱒

noun:

• one cup (of sake)
• (going out for, treating someone to) a drink; small drinking party

noun:

• round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw - four character idiom

noun:

• mantis shrimp (any marine crustacean of order Stomatopoda, esp. the species Oratosquilla oratoria)

noun:

• traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy) ➜ 雁皮

noun / ~する noun / prefix noun:

• turbidity; cloudiness (of a liquid); opacity; muddiness (e.g. water, mind, consciousness)

noun / ~する noun:

• disorder; chaos ➜ 混乱

expression:

• two heads are better than one; if three people gather; the wisdom of Manjushri [literal] - proverb ➜ 文殊

noun:

• Jeet Kune Do; Way of the Intercepting Fist (martial art founded by Bruce Lee) - Martial Arts term

noun:

• long thin strip of dried sea-ear or paper attached to a gift

noun:

• any bird of family Motacillidae (excluding the pipits); wagtail; longclaw

temporal noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• dawn; daybreak Antonym: 暮れ

suffix noun / prefix noun:

• end; soon after something has ended
• beginning (of a new year, month, etc.)

noun:

• tent
• tabernacle
• small curtain-enclosed area (off a stage)
• Makuya (Original Gospel Movement of Japan)

noun:

• minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

noun:

• branch; offshoot; tributary; fork; ramification (e.g. of a nerve, blood vessel, ore vein, etc.)