noun / ~する noun:

• arrival in Japan; coming to Japan; visit to Japan

noun:

• (on the) road; (on the) way; (in the) street

noun:

• in the face of the enemy; before the enemy

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be in danger of; to be liable to

noun:

• country living; life in the country; country life

noun:

• command of English; proficiency in English; knowledge of English

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to cower in fear; to be scared; to be nervous - colloquialism

noun:

• having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart - four character idiom

noun:

• Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back) - archaism

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

adverb:

• how; in what way
• however much; however (e.g. easy, rich, sad); whatever; how much

interjection:

• hey; oi - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to

noun:

• result (of an election); success or defeat (in an election)
• winning or losing (a lottery, raffle, etc.)

noun:

• beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics - four character idiom ➜ 花鳥諷詠
• artistic pursuits involving nature themes

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to bend (knee, etc.)
• to subdue; to overpower

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to feel down - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• cancellation; writing off (a debt)
• indicating a long sound in kana ➜ 長音【ちょうおん】

noun:

• tug o' war; tug of war

noun / ~する noun:

• abbreviation; simplified form of a character; cutting out some strokes in a character; omitting some passages

noun / ~する noun:

• looking on with folded arms (with one's hands in one's sleeves); remaining a passive onlooker - four character idiom

noun:

• entrance (i.e. of a Japanese house) ➜ 上がり口
• start of a rise (e.g. in prices)

noun:

• order - Biology term
• item (of a budget revision, etc.)

counter:

• counter for go pieces; counter for surrounded positions (in go) ➜ 囲碁

temporal noun:

• eight minutes

noun:

• triangular-swept clerical script (clerical script whose horizontal lines end in a noticeable triangular tail) ➜ 六体

noun:

• purification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the third month of the lunar calendar - archaism

noun:

• no food or drink (e.g. as a sign in a library, etc.); no eating or drinking

noun:

• yellow cave goby (Trimma taylori, species found in Indo-Pacific waters); cave dwarfgoby; yellow-speckled pygmy-goby