expression / godan ~う verb:

• to compete for the first place; to be one of the best

noun:

• Taisai; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神
• Jupiter (planet) - archaism ➜ 木星

noun:

• young ascetic of the Himalayas; one of the Buddha's past lives - Buddhism term ➜ 釈迦

noun:

• heaven without fighting; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

adverb:

• to the utmost; to the best of one's ability

noun:

• the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms) ➜ 六道

noun:

• Oban; one of the eight gods of the koyomi ➜ 八将神

noun / suffix noun:

• bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha - Buddhism term
• High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court)
• title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory ➜ 本地垂迹説

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• climate of the third month of the lunar calendar in Okinawa (end of the dry season); early summer

noun / ~の noun:

• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

noun:

• professor specializing in the readings of kanji in classic Confucianist texts

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

noun:

• Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries) ➜ 日本人町

noun / ~の noun:

• desire for improvement (in social standing, etc.); ambition to rise in the world

noun:

• over-concentrated shape (in go); placing too many stones in the same area

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn away (one's eyes, face, etc.); to avert; to divert (e.g. one's attention); to evade (e.g a question); to change (e.g. the subject)
• to displease; to annoy; to offend; to upset - usu. in negative form
• to miss (the target, ball, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• homophony; same pronunciation; same sound - Linguistics term
• unison; same pitch - Music term
• (in) one voice; (speaking in) unison

noun / ~する noun:

• combining the working parts of two or more broken machines to make one functioning machine
• manufacturing one part out of multiple different parts

expression:

• surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it

noun:

• forgetting the hardships of the old year
• forgetting one another's age difference

noun:

• pit; hole - archaism
• kan (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: water, north)

expression / adverb:

• in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

noun:

• pornographic pose (spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter 'M')

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)