noun:

• store buying and selling metal utensils and tools; hardware store; ironmonger's shop

noun / adjectival noun:

• inconsistency between one's words and actions; insincerity; saying one thing and doing another

ichidan verb:

• to love and be loved back; to love and be loved in return; to give and receive love

noun:

• fallen scraps; scatterings
• leftovers; remainder; pickings; odds and ends

noun / ~の noun:

• student who cannot keep up in school; dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.) - colloquialism - sensitive

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

noun:

• anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide - 太宰治

noun:

• sky
• heaven ［てん］
• svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth) ［てん］ - Buddhism term
• deva (divine being of Buddhism) ［てん］ - Buddhism term

adverb:

• what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo)
• what article? (in a law)
• how can?; cannot possibly; there is no way - the 条 in 何条 is an ateji - archaism

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness - onomatopoeia ➜ きりっと
• cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible
• creaking of a door or oar

noun:

• short flute piece (in kyogen; usu. a lively solo)
• flute and drum music played after each act but the last (in kabuki) - also written as 砂切

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pluck (e.g. a fruit, a leaf); to pick; to tear off (e.g. a ticket stub, a branch from a tree)

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• upstage right pillar (on a noh stage), where the main actor stands at the start and end of the play ➜ 仕手

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be stormy or choppy (sea)
• to go through hard times; to be broke
• to be gloomy; to be glum

particle:

• et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
• or something - after an approximate quote or vague suggestion
• the likes of - lessening the significance or value of the previous word

noun:

• cap worn by masked dancer (cap covers hair and nape and reaches to the shoulders)

noun:

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

noun / ~の noun:

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

noun:

• The Treaty of Amity and Commerce (July 29, 1858); Japan-US Friendship and Trade Treaty

noun:

• horsehair; horse hair; hair from mane and tail used for brushes and string instrument bows

conjunction:

• and (also); both ... and; as well as

adjectival noun / noun:

• long and large; tall and large; grand; huge Antonym: 短小

noun:

• Japan and (South) Korea

~の noun:

• Japanese and (South) Korean