~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• a little too short
• slightly worse; a bit inferior

noun:

• prostitute working at a soapland; Turkish girl [literal] - sensitive ➜ ソープレディ・ソープランド

noun:

• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

noun:

• household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier ➜ 食封

noun:

• caterer in a red-light district - archaism

noun:

• bulletin board displaying the name, age, offence, etc. of a criminal sentenced to death (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• right or wrong; correct and incorrect
• correction

godan ~く verb:

• to drop a few lines

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be on the right track; to go well ➜ いい線を行く【いいせんをいく】

noun:

• man used by a woman to pay for her meals - slang ➜ 飯【めし】

noun:

• doing a good deed each day; doing one good turn a day - four character idiom

noun:

• stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryo system) ➜ 封戸

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw a sword

noun:

• food set out on a stand; gift placed on a stand
• food brought on a large stand to a brothel by a red-light district caterer - archaism

noun:

• intellectual property right

noun / ~する noun:

• taking over a duty

expression:

• a samurai never goes back on his word - proverb

noun:

• first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old) ➜ 宮参り

noun:

• the edge (overlapping) part of a tatami mat

noun:

• benefiting from the influence of a master or parent

noun:

• head of a household

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a person sweat for it ➜ 痛い目に遭わせる

noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】

noun:

• place on bridge passageway next to the rear of a noh stage - where the interlude kyogen actors wait ➜ 間狂言