noun:

• loading a horse with passengers or baggage
• driving a horse into a pen
• Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid) - abbreviation ➜ 馬追虫

noun:

• sentence
• composition; text; writings
• the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature ➜ 武
• statement - IT term

noun:

• beginning and end; from beginning to end
• result; outcome; course of events

noun / ~する noun:

• dealing with something successfully

noun:

• near pin (golf); closest to pin (flagstick)
• close (closest) answer or figure

noun / ~する noun:

• raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level - From English "level up"

noun:

• the way something ought to be
• the (current) state of things; how things are

noun:

• stormy weather (at sea) Antonym: 凪
• poor catch of fish (due to stormy seas)
• poor turn-out; recession

suffix / conjunction:

• as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course
• though possible as it may be

noun:

• rudely reaching over one's serving tray to grab food behind it with one's chopsticks

expression:

• Come away home! (expression suggesting quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown) - archaism ➜ 帰去来

noun:

• Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife closely related to purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria)

noun:

• Lushan Conference (1959 meeting of the Communist Party of China to discuss the Great Leap Forward)

noun:

• Trapa japonica (species of plant closely related to water chestnut or water caltrop)
• caltrop (weapon); caltrap

noun:

• spiral (railway); spiral loop; curved railway line used to ascend steep hills ➜ ループ線

noun:

• bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through

noun:

• poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

noun:

• abstract side of things (such as personnel, skill, information; as opposed to physical things) ➜ ハード面

noun:

• moving shallow; spawning run; movement of fish from deep to shallow water during the spawning season

noun:

• young adult still living at home; dependent ➜ 部屋住み
• female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period) ➜ 部屋方
• freeloader living in a samurai's house
• young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)

noun:

• zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
• hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family) ［四手・垂］

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating the speaker's personal recollection or something they've heard (e.g. "was", "wasn't it?", "is said to have ...", etc.) - archaism

noun:

• Japan surgeonfish (Acanthurus japonicus, Indo-West Pacific species of tang found from Indonesia to the Philippines and Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• Cakraratna; wheel-shaped treasure possessed by the ideal universal ruler, carried in front of him during excursions to allow easy passage - Buddhism term ➜ 転輪王・法輪

noun / ~の noun:

• (one's) master
• Lord (Christian ref. to Jesus or God) ［しゅ］
• the main thing; the majority; the primary concern ［しゅ］ ➜ 主たる・主として

noun:

• hand-clapping performed to celebrate the conclusion or completion of something (3-3-3-1 rhythm, done three times) ➜ 一本締め【いっぽんじめ】