expression:

• way of learning; way of studying; way of mastering

noun:

• place of articulation; region of articulation; point of articulation - Linguistics term

noun:

• type of clothing; style of clothing; line of clothing

noun:

• current era of excessive eating; era in which there is more than enough food; age of plenty; age of plentiful food - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha); to pay one's respects
• to beg; to make a supplication
• to see (something or someone of high status) - sometimes used sarcastically in modern Japanese - humble language

noun / ~する noun:

• change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister); replacement

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

noun:

• age of the moon; number of days since the new moon
• age in months (esp. of an infant)

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

noun:

• viewing all things as undifferentiated and equal; non-discriminative thought
• contemplation of the equality of all things from the standpoint of emptiness - Buddhism term

noun:

• Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea) ➜ 竜宮【りゅうぐう】

noun:

• piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back - onomatopoeia
• action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren)
• Tendai sect of Buddhism

~と adverb / adverb:

• lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore) - onomatopoeia
• steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough - often used adverbially as ひたひたに - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• speedily; promptly; quickly; smoothly - onomatopoeia - archaism
• closely; exactly - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• meeting or association of stable masters belonging to the same grouping - Sumo term
• meeting or association of followers of a famous performer (in rakugo, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion
• absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); assimilation
• reception and protection - Buddhism term

noun:

• letters (characters) indicating the end of a movie (The End, Fin, etc.) - From English "end mark"
• indication of the end (of something)

noun:

• cloud; look of the sky; movement of clouds
• kabuki accessory representing a cloud
• type of strange mist appearing in the sky, used for divination

noun:

• area on the concave side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 外帯
• area of southwestern Japan north of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本内帯

noun:

• area on the convex side of a mountain arc or a crescent-shaped archipelago ➜ 内帯
• area of southwestern Japan south of the Median Tectonic Line ➜ 西南日本外帯

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun:

• chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup)

noun:

• light and shade; shade (of colour, color)
• depth (of flavor); complexity; strength and weakness (of flavor)

noun:

• last day of March; last day of the third lunar month (marking the end of spring)