noun:

• deciding match (in a competition for a cup (pennant))

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜に烏

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜の烏

noun:

• frog in a well; "someone with a narrow perspective" [figurative]

noun:

• hill in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• (dental) alveolus; (dental) alveoli; socket in the jaw containing the root of a tooth

noun:

• first rank in the hierarchy of the government
• highest rank given to a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

godan ~る verb:

• to ride on a person's shoulders; to be carried on a person's back

noun / ~する noun:

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

expression:

• a jewel in a dunghill

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】

noun / ~する noun:

• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊

noun:

• clothes a wrestler wears when he has his belt on - Sumo term

expression / adjective:

• influential; powerful; popular; prosperous (when modifying a noun); doing well ➜ 羽振りがいい【はぶりがいい】・羽振り

noun:

• rough voice (e.g. when one has a cold or sore throat)

noun:

• thoughts; opinion; (one's) discretion - honorific language
• however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.)
• fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love; fancy; liking

noun / ~の noun:

• on the board (shogi, go, etc.)

noun:

• ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul) - four character idiom

noun:

• internal hindrance ［ないしょう］ - Buddhism term
• any visual disorder caused by a problem within the eye (i.e. glaucoma, amaurosis, etc.) ➜ 上翳

noun:

• creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (e.g. "omowaku", "osoraku")

noun:

• person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to contribute; to play a part in; to have a hand in; to be conducive to; to be instrumental in
• to finance

noun:

• shadow cast by Mount Fuji; image of Mount Fuji as reflected in a lake, etc.

noun:

• special Diet session; special session of the Diet; Diet session required to be convoked within thirty days of a general election