noun:

• kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play ➜ 本狂言・間狂言
• kabuki play; kabuki performance
• make-believe; ruse; trick

noun:

• measure
• square (e.g. of graph paper or Japanese manuscript paper)
• box (e.g. on a form)

noun:

• looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count)
• katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark - colloquialism ➜ 長音符【ちょうおんぷ】

expression / noun:

• goal which is unattainable; prize beyond one's reach; woman who is out of one's league; flower on a high peak [literal]

noun:

• sign staked to a building's ridgepole at construction time stating the building's donor, builder, date, reason for construction, etc.

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun / ~する noun:

• going to serve one's lord

noun:

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) - abbreviation ➜ 参勤交代

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pour; to add (liquid); to serve (drinks) - esp. 注す ➜ 差す【さす】
• to put on (lipstick, etc.); to apply; to colour; to dye - esp. 点す ➜ 差す【さす】
• to light (a fire); to burn - esp. 点す ➜ 差す【さす】

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far ➜ 抜群

expression:

• till; to; over (a period); through (e.g. Monday through Thursday); about (approx. time or place); on
• concerning (an area of expertise)
• swearing by (one's sword, God, etc.)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to catch (a person's words); to make out; to follow; to understand
• to find out by asking

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fill (with); to be filled with
• to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misplace; to put in the wrong place
• to make a mistake in deciding the winner - Sumo term

expression:

• (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; badgers of the same hole [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a risk for someone; to endanger oneself for someone; to gather chestnuts from the fire [literal] - orig. from the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de La Fontaine - idiom

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

noun:

• mountain mass; small mountain range; group of mountains that are not part of a large mountain range - obscure term ➜ 山塊

noun:

• foreign-owned enterprise; company with capital participation by a foreign company; foreign-affiliated firm; alien corporation; foreign company

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

noun:

• one's own country
• home country (as opposed to a colony)
• country of one's ancestors

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to begin a trip; to depart; to embark
• to die; to pass away; to depart this life

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan

noun:

• half-sibling (by a different father); uterine sibling; maternal half-sibling; half-brother; half-sister

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

noun:

• yen-denominated foreign bond; samurai bond; bond denominated in yen issued by a non-Japanese issuer