noun:

• home territory of a powerful figure; Imperial Court; businessman's turf; Shogun's headquarters ➜ 膝元【ひざもと】

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus, species of circumglobal cow shark with 7 gill slits) ➜ えびすざめ

noun:

• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

noun:

• finelined surgeonfish (Acanthurus grammoptilus, species of Western Pacific tang found in the Philippines, Indonesia and north-western Australia)

noun:

• thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house)
• my home ［ぼうもん］ - humble language

noun:

• person who estimates the variety and quantity of wood necessary to build a house from looking at the plans

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); water leguaan

noun:

• azuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun:

• small roof (e.g. over the first storey of a building, a window, an attached shed or veranda, etc.); overhang ➜ 大屋根

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)

noun / ~する noun / intransitive verb / prefix noun:

• occurring frequently; being susceptible; age, body part, group of people, etc. in which a disease or condition occurs especially frequently - Medicine term

noun:

• heddle; heald; part of a loom, a wire or cord with an eye, through which the warp threads are threaded

noun:

• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a pung to finish one's hand - Mahjong term

adverb / ~と adverb:

• giving two or three light tugs (or pushes) - onomatopoeia
• worrying about; moping; brooding over; fretting - archaism - onomatopoeia
• suddenly angry; feeling a surge of anger - archaism - onomatopoeia

noun:

• (rocky) seashore party; seashore festival ➜ 磯遊び
• celebration in honor of the dragon god by fishermen after a good haul

noun:

• playing shogi with a handicap of the rook and bishop
• participating in a contest while missing key players, pieces, etc.

noun:

• semi-European-style house; type of Japanese house incorporating Western elements that was made popular in the 1920s and 1930s

noun:

• starched white uniform worn by menservants of government officials - archaism
• something pasted with plain white paper (e.g. umbrella, lantern) ➜ 白張り提灯

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
• to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
• to persist in doing; to go through with
• to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
• to take for granted; to assume
• to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
• to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
• to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs