noun:

• humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits
• safety; health; well-being; one's situation

adjectival noun:

• in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper - usu. as ご機嫌 ➜ ご機嫌【ごきげん】

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to contribute; to play a part in; to have a hand in ➜ 資する
• to finance

noun / ~の noun:

• feeling a little drunk with the New Year's sake - four character idiom

noun:

• cere; skin at the base of a bird's beak

noun:

• Yama's pole (with a human head on the top) - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• entrance to a daimyo's mansion
• glans (of the penis)

noun / ~する noun:

• burying a dead person's personal belongings with the body

noun:

• using the sleeves of one's kimono as a pillow - archaism

noun:

• agreement used to prevent unauthorized or faked divorce by couples in Japan in the future

noun:

• (belief in) spiritual power possessed by sisters to protect their brothers (in the Ryukyu Islands)

expression:

• variant of "de arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period ➜ ありんす

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to join; to piece together; to set (bones)
• to graft (onto a tree)

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• leg trip (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Sumo, Martial Arts term
• foothold; pedal

adverbial noun:

• nearly (used to estimate a period of time by rounding up incomplete units) ➜ 丸【まる】

noun:

• chief secretary (usu. of a party); secretary-general

noun:

• death (and entering the hereafter)

noun:

• plan of a house; arrangement of rooms; list of rooms in an apartment, excluding bathroom and toilet, encoded as a string of digits and letters (e.g. "2DK" for a two-room apartment with a kitchen/dining area)

noun:

• Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)
• complex inter-relationship (as in the struggle between two types of vine over one piece of land)

noun:

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

noun:

• peasants chosen to carry the payment of a tax (in kind) to the capital (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

noun:

• thank you gift; gift given as thanks for a favor or for attending a funeral, etc.
• gift sent from a locality to a tax payer as part of the "furusato nozei" tax scheme ➜ ふるさと納税

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; completing the first stage (of the work)

noun:

• one paragraph

counter:

• indicates position in a sequence ➜ 目【め】

noun:

• divisions of a kabuki performance

noun:

• public recitation right (e.g. reciting a poem in a bookstore)