adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• whirling; revolving; spinning; going round and round - onomatopoeia
• coiling around; winding around; rolling around - onomatopoeia
• working tirelessly; working hard - onomatopoeia
• constantly changing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• Chlamydoselachus (genus containing only the frilled shark and the Southern African frilled shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae)

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

noun:

• regular adoption (official adoption with the consent of both parties and without dissolving the relationship with the biological parents)

noun:

• child's role in noh dance; child actor (in noh)
• henchman; follower ➜ 親方

noun:

• Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 左大臣

noun:

• grand kagura performance at Ise
• type of performance including the lion dance and juggling ➜ 雑芸
• Camellia japonica 'Daikagura' (cultivar of Japanese camellia) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 椿

noun:

• Edo miso; type of miso produced in the Tokyo area since the Edo period (usu. low-salt and made with rice koji) ➜ 味噌

expression / adjective:

• I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; I feel regretful; I feel guilty
• thank you very much (for help, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be temperate in; to refrain; to abstain; to hold back; to restrain oneself from excessive ...
• to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
• to be soon; to be in the offing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be in a close relationship (e.g. as a backer, etc.)

noun:

• chef-owner; chef/owner; chef and owner - From English "owner chef"

noun:

• using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning) ➜ 万葉仮名

noun:

• moon snail (Naticidae spp.); moon shell
• Marten's pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata martensii); Akoya pearl oyster ➜ 阿古屋貝

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to deduct; to take away; to dock
• to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to ebb and flow

noun:

• the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering - four character idiom

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun:

• semi-Western, semi-Japanese wooden sailing boat, popular during the latter half of the Meiji period and the Taisho period

noun:

• American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii); Gibb's shrew mole; least shrew mole

noun:

• waste treatment facility; WTF; waste disposal and treatment facility

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• falling lightly (e.g. snow, petals, confetti); fluttering - onomatopoeia
• flickering; twinkling; glimmering; sparkling; dazzling - onomatopoeia
• appearing and disappearing; catching glimpses - onomatopoeia
• glancing (repeatedly) - onomatopoeia ➜ ちらっと
• (hear, see) from time to time; intermittently - onomatopoeia

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out
• to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls

noun:

• competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; 8 faces and 6 arms [literal] - four character idiom