noun / ~する noun:

• increase; raising (e.g. embankment, levee); padding or inflation (e.g. of a bill)

noun / ~する noun:

• please accept (this); used to refer to another's acceptance of one's present - humble language ➜ つまらない物ですが・笑納

noun:

• introduction, development, turn and conclusion (quadripartite structure of certain Chinese poetry) - four character idiom
• story composition and development

noun:

• Gleichenia japonica (species of fern with white-backed leaves)
• white underside; white bottom; white inner - orig. meaning

noun:

• type of double weave that produces a tube-shaped cloth; hollow weaving; double weaving

noun:

• sashimi arranged in the original shape of the fish ➜ 活き造り
• fresh sashimi

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade

noun:

• Bird Day Fair (held at Otori Shrine on each Day of the Bird in November)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to add to one's circle of friends (or colleagues, etc.); to take in; to accept

noun:

• futomaki; thick roll of makizushi
• rolling something thickly; something rolled thickly (a cigar, etc.) ➜ 細巻き【ほそまき】

noun:

• Galilean moons (four largest moons of Jupiter); Galilean satellites - Astronomy term ➜ イオ・エウロパ・ガニメデ・カリスト

noun:

• welcome (beneficial) rain in a drought; realization of something eagerly looked for; a welcome relief - four character idiom

noun:

• welcome (beneficial) rain in a drought; realization of something eagerly looked for; a welcome relief

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to assume the air of ...; to behave like ... - after noun, adjectival noun or adj-stem

godan ~る verb:

• to put on airs; to be self-important - colloquialism

noun:

• preaching burglar; burglar who preaches at the victim about the methods of preventing similar crimes - four character idiom

noun:

• a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun:

• a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

expression:

• super-low (description of a small truck with a low tray)

noun:

• Kyoto Gozan; the five most important Rinzai temples of Kyoto, as well as Nanzen-ji

noun:

• happy trail (line of hair from the navel to the genitals); pubic hair

expression / adjective:

• being unable to leave the work at hand; being right in the middle of something - idiom

noun:

• shadow cast by Mount Fuji; image of Mount Fuji as reflected in a lake, etc.

noun:

• a member of one's "in group" (e.g. one's family, employees, etc.)

noun:

• affiliate program (of Internet advertising) - IT term

noun / ~の noun:

• first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)