noun:

• backside part of the shamisen's neck where it meets the body

noun:

• footwear carrier; servant who carried his master's footwear ➜ 沓取
• professional jester ➜ たいこもち

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to read (somebody's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking - usu. ～の... - idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to plan; to plot; to propose; to design; to intend; to contemplate
• to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business)
• to stand on tip-toes - archaism

noun:

• without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to come to the point; to touch on the point; to address the main points

suffix noun:

• samurai receiving this much rice as a fee - after a quantity
• offering of rice cake containing this much rice
• person receiving this amount of money as a salary - obsolete term

~する noun / adverb / ~と adverb:

• dangling heavily; swaying to and fro; swinging - onomatopoeia
• strolling; rambling; roaming; wandering - onomatopoeia
• idly; lazily; leisurely; aimlessly - onomatopoeia
• persisting (of an illness) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• texture (cloth, fabric, paper)
• market tone; undertone
• balance between the position of white and black stones (in go) ➜ 囲碁

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

noun:

• sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

noun:

• eight Japanese monks who visited China during the early Heian (Enchin, Engyō, Ennin, Eun, Jōgyō, Kūkai, Saichō, and Shūei) ➜ 八家

noun:

• pickles made in brine and fermented rice bran (esp. vegetables, also meat, fish, eggs, etc.)

noun:

• every single word and phrase; word by word - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• inflection of words (e.g. declension of nouns and conjugation of verbs) - Linguistics term

noun:

• China and the Soviet Union ➜ ソ連【ソれん】

prefix:

• Sino-Soviet; Soviet-Chinese ➜ 中ソ国境紛争【ちゅうソこっきょうふんそう】

noun:

• correspondence notebook (e.g. between teacher and parents); contact notebook; communication notebook

godan ~る verb:

• to hit and break open; to crush; to smash - colloquialism

noun:

• three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)

noun:

• public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels) - abbreviation ➜ 簡易宿所

noun / ~の noun:

• mail order; mail-order sales; shop-by-mail service; on-line shopping service (with delivery by mail)

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not

noun / ~する noun:

• being in dire distress; being hard put to it - four character idiom
• the four and eight kinds of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦・八苦