noun:

• sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (often a homosexual or transsexual male) - Linguistics term

noun:

• single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral

noun:

• town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

noun:

• pogo; dance in which one jumps up and down to the beat of the music

noun:

• observing and reviewing the effects of a drug after it has been released onto the market

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to drill; to bore; to pierce; to pass through

godan ~つ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to hit the mark; to get to the heart of (the matter); to be true to (nature)

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to put on; to wear - archaism

noun:

• scent of a flower floating about in the air; lingering scent of a flower in the darkness

expression:

• curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• person in charge of music (in a Japanese dance performance) ➜ 立方【たちかた】
• person singing ballads (in noh)
• coast (esp. as seen from the water); shore
• the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to reach the summit (e.g. of a mountain)
• to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

adjective:

• slow; time-consuming; sluggish ［遅い・鈍い・遲い］
• late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); until a time far into the day or night ［遅い・晩い・遲い］
• later (than expected or usual); late; behind schedule; behind time; tardy; overdue; unpunctual ［遅い・晩い・遲い］
• too late; having missed the boat ［遅い・晩い・遲い］
• dull; stupid ［遅い・鈍い・遲い］ - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服【げんぶく】・初冠【ういこうぶり】

noun:

• person in charge of crowning the boy at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism

noun:

• this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker); this direction ➜ 何方【どちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• here (place close to the speaker or where the speaker is)
• this one (something physically close to the speaker)

pronoun:

• I; me; we; us
• this person (someone physically close to the speaker and of equal or higher status)

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun / prefix:

• previous; prior; former; first; earlier; some time ago; preceding
• point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle
• head (of a line); front
• ahead; the other side
• the future; hereafter
• destination
• the other party

noun:

• old-fashioned boys' hairstyle
• Meiji period women's hairstyle
• type of dance in kabuki ［揚げ巻・揚巻］
• knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring (color) ［揚げ巻・揚巻］ - Sumo term
• constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam - abbreviation ➜ 揚巻貝

noun:

• cabinetwork; joinery - usu. 指(し)物
• hair ornament; hairpin - often 挿(し)物
• colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period - archaism

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

noun:

• picture of the world; world picture; image of the world; Weltbild

noun / ~する noun:

• reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; completing the first stage (of the work)

noun:

• one paragraph

noun:

• Southern Cross (asterism formed with the brightest four stars of the constellation Crux) - Astronomy term ➜ 南十字星【みなみじゅうじせい】

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• flower-patterned material used to bind the ends of the spine in books - From English "head band" ➜ 花布

noun:

• exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala - obscure term
• platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern

expression:

• even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears; a tear in the ogre's eye [literal] - proverb