adjectival noun:

• seeming to want to say something; looking like one wants to give one's opinion

noun:

• pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making) - obscure term

adverb / expression:

• as you please; in any way you like; as you wish

noun:

• life and death
• samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) ［しょうし・しょうじ］ - Buddhism term
• death ［しょうし・しょうじ］

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
• to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
• to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
• to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
• to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to examine (an expression); to study (a face)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to face - esp. 臨く - archaism ➜ 臨む

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to revel in trouble and discord; to be bent on making trouble; to like starting fights

~と adverb / adverb:

• crying; tears dripping; water dripping; grain-like object falling - onomatopoeia
• falling off; falling down - onomatopoeia
• inadvertently coming to the surface - onomatopoeia

noun:

• nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to run aground; to strike a rock; to be stranded on a reef
• to reach a deadlock; to come to a standstill; to run into difficulties; to hit a snag

noun:

• mythical shark-like demon sea monster with barbed tail fin, said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan; Beach Stroker

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud)
• to make a young woman one's own thing

expression / ~よい adjective:

• inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever you do is OK; trivial

adjectival noun / noun:

• recklessness; rashness; foolhardiness; temerity; without watching where one is going [literal]

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• divergent opinions abound; opinion is divided; there are many rumors afloat - four character idiom

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• non-fruit-bearing flower
• something that is flashy with no content

noun:

• mythical ball inside the anus that is sought after by kappa

expression:

• one's true purpose lying elsewhere; the enemy is at Honnoji [literal] ➜ 本能寺の変

noun:

• woman who is obsessed with the education of her children

suffix / expression:

• adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with ➜ それと無く・何となく・幾度となく

noun:

• sake made from rice or other cereal which is chewed before fermentation

noun:

• silvering; silvered item
• person who is all style and no substance; poser

noun:

• obi that is not tied but merely wrapped around the body

expression:

• "as is" sale (e.g. at an auction) - From English "no claim, no return"

expression:

• when dealing with urgent business, make use of whoever is handy - proverb